Here's a deep amethyst purple glass antique paperweight inkwell over 110 years old...no embossing....hand pressed in mold....square with rounded pillar corners...sunken square pattern bottom....2"tall x 2 1/2"square....It has a small stress crack in top of lip & a small shallow chip at base edge. No other damage. A nice clean inkwell made in the 1890s or early 1900 era. It would have been used as a paperweight since the glass is so thick and heavy.... THIS IS A FIXED PRICE ITEM FOR SALE IN MY STORE.

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The beautiful amethyst or purple color of this glass is a result of the presence of manganese in the glass, which was a decolorizer to turn the glass clear.  Glass that contains manganese, when exposed to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, causes the glass to turn amethyst. Some of my amethyst bottles and glass are purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight. Others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a box…and some have been purpled by running them through a water sterilization plant,  which is a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as many years of exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. To those "purists" who falsely believe that glass cannot turn this deep amethyst color naturally, I could take you to places where bottles and glass have turned this same shade of purple from being in the sunlight for many years