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PURPLE ANTIQUE WALKERS GRAPE JUICE BOTTLE.
A 9 inch tall cylinder-shape deep SUN COLORED AMETHYST (SCA) antique grape juice bottle. This little bottle is unique in that it tapers down from the middle, both up and down. In effect, it looks like a BOWLING PIN, kind of has a 'bowling pin' shape to it. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating back into the late 1800's.
Bottle embossed on base: "WALKERS / GRAPE / JUICE Grape Products Co North East PA”
Condition: Bottle is in good solid condition. It has some age wear and uniform patina covering it, from 100 + years of time, though there is nothing specifically wrong with it; NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800's - early 1900's.
A super nice looking antique bottle that looks like a soda bottle but is a Grape Juice bottle. This bottle looks very similar to the bottles put out by the WELCH's Grape Juice company, everything about it except that instead of it being a "WELCHS" bottle it is base embossed "WALKERS" grape juice. And it wasn't very successful as you rarely will fine one of these WALKERS for sale. This was a competitive market back then, selling grape juice, as there are a ton of different embossed little bottles just like this, the same size and style, but embossed with different makers. This would be a fun category to collect, to see how many different makes and brands there are! This is the earliest style of these types of grape juice bottle, true and original ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with tooled tops. By the book this hand blown style of bottle pre-dates 1903, when the automatic bottle machine came into being and eventually took over the hand blown process. And it is an attractive rich purple color. You hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ...the purple color 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. Then it was blown into a mold to create a bottle, jar, or other object. But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese starts to oxidize and slowly turns a lavender or amethyst color. The end result is what collectors refer to as SCA (Sun Colored Amethyst) glass. The longer it is in the sun the purpler it becomes. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 has manganese in it and will turn SCA. Then, with the beginning of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports deceased and domestic resources turned towards the war effort. Selenium sulphate then replaced manganese as a glass de-colorizer and when exposed to UV rays, it turns a yellow / straw color, and a dark burnt amber color. In summary, not only does this purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!
A 9 inch tall cylinder-shape deep SUN COLORED AMETHYST (SCA) antique grape juice bottle. This little bottle is unique in that it tapers down from the middle, both up and down. In effect, it looks like a BOWLING PIN, kind of has a 'bowling pin' shape to it. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a tooled top, dating back into the late 1800's.
Bottle embossed on base: "WALKERS / GRAPE / JUICE Grape Products Co North East PA”
Condition: Bottle is in good solid condition. It has some age wear and uniform patina covering it, from 100 + years of time, though there is nothing specifically wrong with it; NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.
Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800's - early 1900's.
A super nice looking antique bottle that looks like a soda bottle but is a Grape Juice bottle. This bottle looks very similar to the bottles put out by the WELCH's Grape Juice company, everything about it except that instead of it being a "WELCHS" bottle it is base embossed "WALKERS" grape juice. And it wasn't very successful as you rarely will fine one of these WALKERS for sale. This was a competitive market back then, selling grape juice, as there are a ton of different embossed little bottles just like this, the same size and style, but embossed with different makers. This would be a fun category to collect, to see how many different makes and brands there are! This is the earliest style of these types of grape juice bottle, true and original ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with tooled tops. By the book this hand blown style of bottle pre-dates 1903, when the automatic bottle machine came into being and eventually took over the hand blown process. And it is an attractive rich purple color. You hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ...the purple color 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. Then it was blown into a mold to create a bottle, jar, or other object. But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese starts to oxidize and slowly turns a lavender or amethyst color. The end result is what collectors refer to as SCA (Sun Colored Amethyst) glass. The longer it is in the sun the purpler it becomes. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 has manganese in it and will turn SCA. Then, with the beginning of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports deceased and domestic resources turned towards the war effort. Selenium sulphate then replaced manganese as a glass de-colorizer and when exposed to UV rays, it turns a yellow / straw color, and a dark burnt amber color. In summary, not only does this purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!
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