A 4 1/4 inch tall cylinder-shaped deep PURPLE AMETHYST colored antique SAMPLE Blue Label Catsup bottle.   What's great about this bottle is that it is FULLY EMBOSSED, the bottle has embossed vertical lines covering the body except for the label space.  It is a ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold (BIM) bottle dating back to the 1800's.

• Bottle embossed on shoulder:  "CBCo" in a circle, for 'CURTICE BROTHERS and COMPANY'   

• Condition:   Bottle was dug up over 40 years ago in a redwood grove on the California coast.  It still retains some content stain and dust that it has gathered from sitting all this time on a shelf as part of an old bottle collection.  If you look hard you will see a paper thin flake from the lip, where the seam intersects, a manufacturing defect left by the glass blower.  Otherwise the bottle is just fine, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  
• Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a crudely tooled top, ca. late 1800's.
• Shipping: FREE domestic shipping.   We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT insure International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate.  If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates.  We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time. 

You don't have to look too much on the internet to find pictures of one of these bottles in the full size, that has the paper label on it for 'BLUE LABEL CATSUP'.  But you will see many of the full sized bottles before you find one of these little sample bottles for sale.  If you look closely at this bottle you will see it is a screw top, but do not let that fool you.  It is one of the oldest screw tops you will see, a hand tooled screw top, and this example really shows it off with the seam marks being cleanly wiped away by the tooling process, before it reaches the top.  If you look hard you will see a paper thin flake from the lip, where the seam intersects, a manufacturing defect left by the glass blower.    And then the color, the pure purple color.  We've all heard about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ... this beautiful purple amethyst color is the result of  this bottle being made with manganese-glass.  Manganese is a mineral, a rock, that was mined, crushed, and pulverized into a powder, then added to vats of 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 a wonderful amethyst color.    This bottle was run through an industrial food sterilizer, a safe and permanent process that enriches 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!   Not a commonly seen miniature bottle, and a mini catsup bottle at that, check it out!

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