Antique Original FRY ART Co EMBOSSED & LABELED cabin / house shaped ink well

Description

A
2 1/2" tall
square-shaped deep PURPLE AMETHYST colored
antique embossed figural HOUSE or CABIN shaped INK WELL
that is also labeled.
This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE
hand
B
lown
I
nto
M
old bottle
(
BIM)
with a tooled top,
dating back to the 1800's, well over a
CENTURY OLD
!
Bottle embossed
:   "
THE / FRY ART CO. / NEW YORK
"
.
Condition
:  Ink well is in good condition.  It has some stain and smudging (that will clean off) but NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc.  Please see pictures for idea of label's condition
.
Age
:  An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled top, ca.
late
1800's
.
Shipping
:
FREE
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A very nice example of an antique American Ink Well.
This style of bottle is referred to as a 'CABIN' or 'HOUSE' ink bottle by collectors, as it is shaped like a little cabin with 4 walls, a roof, and the neck opening is the chimney of the cabin.  It is one of the very few hand blown cabin or house ink well that is embossed.  And then there is the color, the beautiful deep purple lavender color.   You hear about old bottles turning purple
...
the 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.   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 bottle has been 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. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst. Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make it a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique!
In summary, this is a f
inite item as only so many of these old bottles have survived the elements of time
WITH THE ORIGINAL PAPER LABEL intact
,
check it out!
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