Rare TINY antique SOLON PALMER perfume bottle COLORFUL PURPLE w/ GLASS stopper

Description: A tiny 3 3/4 inch tall (to the top of the stopper) cylinder-shaped beautiful DEEP PURPLE AMETHYST color antique perfume bottle. This is a rare SOLON PALMER bottle, a small Palmer perfume bottle in and a style that Palmer RARELY used. Bottle has a lot going for it. It is 1) EMBOSSED, 2)it has a GLASS STOPPER, 3)it is a nice lavender color, and it is a rare SOLON PALMER bottle. It is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) bottle with a tooled top, dating back to the 1800's. Bottle embossed: "S. PALMER / PERFUMER / N.Y." Condition: Bottle is in nice solid condition. It has content stain and age wear, but there isn't anything significantly wrong with it. The stopper is in good condition, it is NOT stuck in the bottle. See picture for accurate assessment of bottle's condition. Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-top, ca. late 1800 's. Shipping: FREE domestic shipping. We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT International orders unless buyer specifically requests this and we are able to provide an insurance estimate. If an international shipping charge is much more than the actual shipping cost, we will refund the excess so what YOU pay for shipping/insurance is very close to, if not exactly, the ACTUAL shipping costs! This is important for foreign buyers to know as most of our foreign shipping charges are estimates. We do not falsify information on the Customs Form, such as a price other than what the actual purchase price is, so please do not request us to do so. We ship several times a week and your prompt payment will hasten the turn-around time. What a RARE little antique Palmer perfume bottle. We've NEVER seen one of these little Palmer perfume bottles before. It may be that the glass house that normally made the common style bottle that he normally used (with the name Palmer vertically embossed down the front) could not take his order so he went to another glass house for just one batch of bottles, and this is one of them. Solon Palmer, the founder of this company, became one of the most successful perfumers in America, and was probably the first to engage in the manufacture of perfumes on a commercial scale, with the height of popularity coming in the 1890-1920's time period. He was born in New Hampshire on February 23, 1823. Growing to adulthood, he moved west to Cincinnati Ohio where in June of 1847, he opened his first perfume shop at 8 West 4th Street. Business was good, and he moved several years later to 169 Main street where he occupied a 3 story building. Solon Palmer sought an even larger market, and in 1871 he moved the business to New York City. Due to continued success, the company moved again in NYC to larger quarters at 376 Pearl Street, occupying a store and basement, each having an area of 50 x 100 feet and being fitted with all of the necessary cosmetic products to suit an ever growing American populace. Palmer carried a heavy and complete general stock, and gave employment to a number of hands, to manufacture and handle it. He had up to sixteen traveling salesmen in early twentieth century America, who were constantly on the road. As a result, Palmer's goods could be be found on the counters and shelves of every leading drug and fancy goods store in every city and town of importance in this country. Palmer's soaps and perfumes were manufactured by him in all odors, and put up in all styles from the plain clear glass little vials, to elaborate and fancy cut and colored apothecary display bottles. As early as the 1870's, Solon's son Eddy had begun to work in the business, and in 1892, Solon made his son a full business partner. Founder Solon Palmer passed away at his home on 622 West End Avenue on January 19, 1903. Eddy Palmer continued to grow the business, and it was during the time period of 1890-1920, that most the attractive PALMER'S bottles were made (LIKE THIS ONE) the ones that the bottle collectors of today collect. In 1934, Eddy Palmer passed away and control of the business went to his sons, Lubin and Solon. The company continued in business through the 1940's, but gradually lost market share and, from what little can be found, went out of business in the early 1960's. This bottle is one of the very few tangible things left behind that testify to this once thriving cosmetic dynasty, and this example here is a rare example of one. The purple color is the result of the presence of manganese in the glass, a mineral that was pulverized and added to vats of liquid glass that acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the glass clear. Exposure to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color. Many of our amethyst bottles have been purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight, others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a box, and still others have been purpled by running them through a sterilization (radiation) process, a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. Though some "purists" will suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered, the only thing that is artificial or altered is the time period it took to turn purple. Whether a bottle has been purpled by the sun, by UV rays in a box, or by a sterilization process, they all turn the same purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place. With few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst and this amethyst coloration authenticates it as a true antique, a true antique, check it out!Terms of Sale: Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We put our 30+ years of experience in antiques to use in describing every item we list. Items are sold in a store front format and your purchase is a binding contract, so please don't be hasty when looking over the listing. 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