Beautiful antique MANNY glass JUICER or REAMER dated 1800's PRETTY PURPLE color

Description

A smaller
3 3/4"
wide
x 2" tall
beautiful advanced
SUN COLORED AMETHYST (
SCA
) antique Juicer or Reamer
.
This is an original antique
M
old
B
lown reamer or juicer, dating back to the late 1800's.  It also has several embossed patent dates on it, all from the latter 1800's and all attesting to the correctness of this date
.
Reamer embossed
:   "
MANNY PAT. - AUG. 25 1885 - NOV. 12 1886. / (2 PAT S)  DEC. 2.  90 - JUNE  29.   86 - JULY  30.   89
".   The embossed lettering is nice and crisp (
BOLD
) as seen in the pictures and all of this is embossed on the top making it easy to read.  Then the under side is embossed "
MADE IN U.S.A.
"
Condition
:   Reamer is in very good condition. The glass has a very interesting finish on it, almost an opaque look to it?  It is possible that over time someone had sprayed it with a very light layer of lacquer that is now well aged?   It was not I if this is the case.  It seems to be flaking a little, so maybe it is etching or opalization, an effect that happens to antique glass when it starts to break down or age over time, or the glass starts to react to chemicals in its environment.  As far as damage, it has an even roughness all around the seam (mold blown) that circles the circumference of it, which looks like it was there since the day it was made.  Otherwise it is in very good condition for a glass
utilitarian object that was meant to be used over and over again it broke.
Please see pictures for idea of general condition
.
Age
: An early mold-blown reamer, most recent embossed date is
1890
.
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There were only a few different antique reamers ever made that were embossed with a company name and dates, as this one is.   As if the embossing itself is not enough, it is filled with patent dates, helping to validate it as a true antique reamer.  This is the smaller reamer, the kind that you would place on top of a small bucket or large glass, to catch the juice.   And then there is the color; you don't see many of these reamers that are old enough to turn sun colored
purple.  You hear about old glass 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 vessel or other object.   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 reamer was passed through some concentrated UV rays which had the same affect as the sun, but a lot faster.   It has not been colored, stained, or altered.    No matter how a bottle or jar has turned purple (direct sunlight or UV rays in controlled environment) they all turn the same purple color as it is the same chemical reaction taking place.   The only difference is the time it took to turn purple.  What is important is that an item is old enough to turn purple as with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1915 has manganese in it and will turn SCA.  After this,
with the start of WWI, manganese was no longer available as foreign imports deceased and domestic resources turned towards the war effort.   Selenium sulphate then replaced manganese as a glass de-colorizer and when exposed to UV rays, it turns a yellow / straw color, and a dark burnt amber color
.
Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique reamer, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique,
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