RARE 4 1/4"SMALL AMETHYST GLASS KEROSENE LANTERN GLOBE 1880s GROUND OPENINGS

Description: This is a very scarce 4 1/4"small size antique amethyst glass globe for a kerosene lantern made in the 1880s or 1890s..It has no embossing.......Round ovoid shape ......4 1/4"tall.....1 7/8"across ground top opening.....2 3/4"across ground bottom opening...........beautiful amethyst purple.....Excellent shiny nice condition with no chips or damage.... A nice clean globe with no haze. ..This globe probably went in a small size barn style lantern? Its the only one like it I've seen in a long time....FREE SHIPPING WITH TRACKING.... THIS IS A FIXED PRICE GLOBE FOR SALE IN MY STORE. .....Free postage only if you live within the U.S.A.....Shipping charge is NOT fully included in the price if you live anywhere outside the United States. We use the Ebay Global Shipping Program... Always a full money back guarantee(minus the return postage) if you are not happy with any of my items. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We are happy to accept most forms of payment including paypal. Thank you for your business....your friendly fellow collector, Digger Dave Beeler WE HAVE THE LARGEST INVENTORY OF ANTIQUE BOTTLES ON EBAY WITH FRESH LISTINGS NEARLY EVERY DAY. We stand proudly in support of our military men and women and their families. The beautiful amethyst or purple color of this glass is a result of the presence of manganese in the glass, which was a decolorizer to turn the glass clear. Glass that contains manganese, when exposed to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, causes the glass to turn amethyst. Some of my amethyst bottles and glass are purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight. Others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a box…and some have been purpled by running them through a water sterilization plant, which is a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as many years of exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. To those "purists" who falsely believe that glass cannot turn this deep amethyst color naturally, I could take you to places where bottles and glass have turned this same shade of purple from being in the sunlight for many years

Price: 85 USD

Location: Hillsboro, Illinois

End Time: 2025-01-25T22:57:55.000Z

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