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RE: Sun Colored Amethyst questions - 7/29/2008 7:35:29 PM    beendiggin Posts: 797 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: online NorCal, I live in Maine and I have dug fragments of bottles that were that purple.  Maine is not the sunniest state, so it true that the percentage of magnesium in the batch combined with sunlight and time can produce dark purple glass naturally. I have seen this mostly on milks I've found.  Usually they are lightly colored, however. (in reply to NorCalBottleHunter) Post #: 21

RE: Sun Colored Amethyst questions - 7/29/2008 10:59:17 PM    FlouiseA27   Posts: 8 Joined: 7/27/2008 From: York, Maine Status: offline In this situation, I wouldn't care how those bottles got that color... they are gorgeous regardless! Good find! _____________________________ Jag alskar deg (in reply to beendiggin) Post #: 22

RE: Sun Colored Amethyst questions - 8/2/2008 12:01:07 PM    lexdigger   Posts: 929 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline Here's one I always wondered about. I dug it with alot of other 60's and 70's stuff. It came out of the ground this color, so I know it hasn't been messed with. I just wonder if it turned this color from exposure to sunlight during use, or if it was intentionally (or accidentally) made this color. One of my favorite little house inks! Attachment (1) (in reply to FlouiseA27) Post #: 23

RE: Sun Colored Amethyst questions - 8/2/2008 12:02:33 PM    lexdigger   Posts: 929 Joined: 5/31/2005 From: Lexington, Ky. Status: offline Another look at it without backlighting. Attachment (1) (in reply to lexdigger) Post #: 24

RE: Sun Colored Amethyst questions - 8/2/2008 1:12:21 PM    GuntherHess Posts: 5160 Joined: 12/13/2004 From: Frederick Maryland Status: offline just for the record , its manganese , not magnesium. Two different elements. Your ink was likely made clear and turned SCA either while in use or after it was disposed. That looks like a tooled lip in the photo, made after the 1880s when the use of manganese bleached glass was seeing wide use. < Message edited by GuntherHess -- 8/2/2008 1:17:21 PM > _____________________________ Looking for Frederick Maryland and Dr Fahrney Bottles 2008 Medicine Bottle Price Guide on CDROM http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/BottleBook2008.htm email http://www.mattsoldhouse.com/MC/bottles/email.jpg (in reply to lexdigger) Post #: 25

RE: Sun Colored Amethyst questions - 8/2/2008 2:55:43 PM    glass man Posts: 1832 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: online OLD TIMERS ? YOU ARE "YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS" IS WHAT YALL IS! Always wanted to get old enough to say" YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS" ! NOW I WONDER IF ANY ONE CAN TELL ME WHAT THE....A "YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPER " IS? BUNCH OF YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS!!!! _____________________________ JESUS said"COME TO THE WATER,STAND BY MY SIDE. I KNOW YOU ARE THIRSTY;YOU WON'T BE DENIED. I FELT EVERY TEARDROP WHEN IN DARKNESS YOU CRIED,SO I STROVE TO REMIND YOU FOR THOSE TEARS I DIED. "children of the day" (in reply to glass man) Post #: 26

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