RARE tall slender DOUBLE SAFETY pint size FRUIT JAR purple amethyst PRISTINE

Tall scarce TALL SLENDER PINT size, wonderful beautiful SUN COLORED AMETHYST (SCA) antique Fruit Jar. This is NOT a reproduction but a 100 year old ORIGINAL ANTIQUE canning jar. This is the next to impossible tall slender PINT size of this jar. Not only is it hard to find this jar in th is tall slender half pint, it is about impossible to find one that is old enough to turn this deep purple color.

W hether there is sunlight streaming through the jar in a picture window or a light beaming through the jar as you hold it up, you will be WOWED by the RICH PURPLE and sparkling clean CONDITION of this jar. This is an early blown into mold glass jar with a smooth top, dating well over a century old. " in fancy script and the base is fully embossed, " SMALLEY KIVLAN & ONTHANK CO / BOSTON, MASS. / BOSTON & NEW YORK. Condition : Jar is in SPARKLING CLEAN condition. It may have a trace of haze or age wear, NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. Age : An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE blown-glass (ABM) jar with a smooth lip, ca.

The DOUBLE SAFETY jars come in half gallon, quart, and pint size, as they are a common jar as such. What you rarely see is this odd tall slender pint size jar. It is very difficult to find one of these tall slender pints that is old enough to turn purple let alone one that is this deep purple color.

Nice too is that the lid is original to the jar, as the'SMALLEY' embossing testifies to. You hear about old glass turning purple... This 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 or jar. 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. This little jar was 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. It has not been colored, stained, or altered. It is not so important how an antique jar has turned purple (direct sunlight or UV rays in controlled environment) they all turn the same purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place. The only difference is the time it took to turn purple.

But what is important is that an item had to be old enough to begin with, as with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 have manganese in them and will turn SCA. After this, with the start of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports decreased 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. Generally speaking NO MORE purple glass after 1915! The deep purple color which really accentuates the embossing, especially the embossed cross. With a clear glass jar, you see through it, and the embossing reflects what ever patterns are captured in the background. Yet with this deep purple color, you are looking, not through the embossing but right AT the embossing, which totally intensifies it, almost 3-D, and jumps out right back at you! Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique jar, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique! This little jar is functional as well since the wire bale and glass lid work.

It can be used as a storage jar on a kitchen counter for sugar, dried peas, rice, coffee beans, dried fruit, honey... And anything stored in this jar on a kitchen counter would be enough to entirely Wow your neighbors when they stop in to borrow a cup of sugar. Not bad for a century old glass jar AND again, EXTRA RARE in this tall slender pint size jar, check it out!