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thank you very muck, according to Brad I was Black Listed  Well the top of the Bottle is not going to the top the line , and the lip is and coloring amethsyt . may I ask you a question? Is this site ok?
http://www.blm.gov/historic_bottles/liquor.htm#Decorative%20Flasks
I was wondering , because from that site , it seem to be very informative as well .It seems to give a this there Purple/Amethyst  Purple and amethyst are uncommon colors in bottles but show up with enough frequency to warrant mention. This group of purple to reddish colors were usually a result of glass that was colorized with nickel or manganese oxides (Tooley 1953). As noted in the colorless glass description above, small amounts of manganese dioxide was used as a decolorizer to offset the iron impurities present in virtually all sands. This colorless glass will variably turn amethyst upon long term exposure to sunlight. With larger concentrations of these substances in the glass batch amethyst to purple glass is purposefully created (Jones & Sullivan 1989).
 Because of this color's variability (and popularity with collectors) it is not surprising that there are numerous names for subtle differences in this color theme. They include descriptive words based on real reddish substances like claret, burgundy, red wine, or if tending towards amber, puce which according to Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1996) is a "dark purplish brown to dark red." The difference between purple and amethyst is subtle, though amethyst is often a "pinker" color than purple.
Diagnostic Utility: These true purple/reddish/amethyst colors (not sun colored amethyst) in bottles are primarily found in the era between the 1840s and early 1880s; they are rarely noted in bottles that date before or after that date range (empirical observations).
The deep reddish amethyst colored bottle above is a Mrs. S. A. Allen's World's Hair Restorer (New York) which dates from the 1870s. Hair treatment bottles are one of the few classes of bottles in which the purple/amethyst colors are fairly commonly found. Other classes of bottles where these colors occur with some frequency (though still not commonly) is figured or pictorial flasks, bitters (particular those which are "barrel" shaped like the bottle to the right), and some types of ink bottles. The bottle to the right is an Old Sachem Bitters and Wigwam Tonic (New York) which likely dates 1860-1870. It's color would be described as medium amethyst. (This photo courtesy of Jeff Noordsy Antiques.)
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