This is the VERY FIRST style of bottle to be used by Bayer, possibly dating back to the 1800's. Do not let the screw top fool you, this is a super early hand blown glass bottle, the glass threads on this bottle were actually formed by the hands of artistic glass blowers who worked in the large glass works on the eastern USA seaboard. These early bottles came in two (2) sizes and styles, this is the larger size, a rectangular shaped bottle made for around the home. The other style is a smaller oval tear-drop shaped bottle, made to easily fit in a pocket or purse for going mobile. Most of the 'antique' Bayer bottles you see for sale are the newer bottles with the word Bayer just embossed on each side. This original bottle with embossing in cross on front in round circle dates back to around 1904 from what we can tell. Bayer tablets to have a Heroin connection as aspirin was not the only product put out by Bayer .... Bayer actually started producing HEROIN in the late 1800's. Using the name ( Heroin ) supposedly because early testers said it made them feel heroic or like a hero thus heroin (hero{in}) became the name. Bayer began selling it in tablet form in the 1890's. By 1899, Bayer was producing about a ton of heroin a year, and was eventually exporting the drug to other countries as well, including the USA. But reports of HEROIN addiction reached dangerous proportions so in the early 19-teens, Bayer wisely elected to withdraw from Heroin production. Bayer had released their aspirin tablets at about the time they were producing heroin and so turned all of its resources to the manufacturer of aspirin, and this new non-addictive painkiller and anti-inflammatory was well on its way to becoming the most popular drug ever. This one has a beautiful deep purple hue. You hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ... The beautiful purple amethyst color of this bottle is the result of being made with manganese in the glass, a mineral that was pulverized and added to vats of liquid glass that acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the natural aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass. Exposure to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color. The longer it is in the light, the darker purple it becomes until it is so deep purple that it almost looks black. This bottle had been exposed to a high heat/light source to enrich the purple color that would naturally occur if exposed to sun light for a prolonged period of time. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst. Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make it a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique! Anyway, the purple color of this bottle just sets the morning sunlight on fire as it passes through the window and shines through the translucent purple color that this bottle is made up of, check it out!
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