Description

A 6 1/4 inch tall pristine PURPLE AMETHYST colored rectangular-shaped antique HAIRINE HAIR TONIC bottle. This bottle is both EMBOSSED and has much of the original paper LABEL on the backside. It is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand B lown I nto M old bottle ( BIM ) with a tooled top, dating it all the way back to the 1800's. Bottle embossed : " HAIRINE / THE BEST / HAIR TONIC / IN THE WOLLD / BEAL, STREIT CO. / N. Y. " . Bottle's label reads in part : " HAIRINE ... Makes The Hair Grow ... CUREs DANDRUFF and stops FALLING HAIR ...A Boon to Ladies and Children... " . Condition : Bottle is in SPARKLING CLEAN condition. It may have just a trace of wear, nick, or scrape, but there isn't anything specifically wrong with it. NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. PLEASE see pictures for better idea of label's condition . Age : An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold (BIM) bottle with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800's . Shipping : FREE domestic shipping, includes insurance. 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 . A super nice looking antique HAIR TONIC bottle and one we've not seen before. Just when you think you've seen them all, here is a new one that shows up. Hair preparations were a very competitive field back in the day and many bottled their product in fancy shaped and colored bottles which makes for a vast array of collectible bottles today. This one would certainly complement a line up of nicely colored HAIR TONIC bottles. Note it is paneled in the front, all of the embossing is within a sunken panel, giving it that old patent medicine type look. And it is a patent or quack medicine as it actually states on the label that it " MAKE THE HAIR GROW " and " CURES DANDRUFF and FALLING HAIR ". Even the embossing makes quite the claim when it says it is the " BEST HAIR TONIC in the WORLD "! Then there is the deep purple color of the glass ... the beautiful purple amethyst color of this glass is the result of the presence of 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 glass crystal clear. 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. Many of our amethyst bottles have been purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight, others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a box, and still others have been purpled by running them through a sterilization (radiation) process, a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. Though some "purists" will suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered, the only thing that is artificial or altered is the time period it took to turn purple. Whether a bottle has been purpled by the sun, by UV rays in a box, or by a sterilization process, they all turn the same purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst. Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique! And it's not just a great looking bottle but, as the embossing claims, it is the BEST HAIR TONIC IN THE WORLD , check it out! Terms of Sale : Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We put our 30+ years of experience in antiques to use in describing every item we list. Items are sold in a store front format and your purchase is a binding contract, so please don't be hasty when looking over the listing. We find that communication is the key to successful transactions so PLEASE completely read the item description AND ask questions before purchasing, thank you ! 4055-58x ALABAMA ALASKA ARIZONA ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT DELAWARE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA GEORGIA HAWAII IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAINE MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI MONTANA NEBRASKA NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA OHIO OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH VERMONT VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING.