This bottle has one side that is completely covered with decorative embossing. The other side has a very colorful label for YLANG YLANG perfume. The purple color of this bottle is the result of having manganese in the glass. Manganese is a mineral, a rock, that was mined, crushed, and pulverized into a powder, then added to vats of molten liquid glass, and acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the natural aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass. But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns purple. This bottle was run through an industrial food sterilizer which has the same affect as the sun, but a lot faster. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 has manganese in it and will turn sun-colored-amethyst. So a bottle had to of been blown with manganese in the glass, in order to turn purple. Not only does this deep purple color make it a great looking antique ITEM, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!
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