Intense PURPLE antique AMIDON Ginger BRANDY bottle w/ bare breasted Lady Godiva for Sale

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Intense PURPLE antique AMIDON Ginger BRANDY bottle w/ bare breasted Lady Godiva For Sale

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Intense PURPLE antique AMIDON Ginger BRANDY bottle w/ bare breasted Lady Godiva:
$349.99

An 11 5/8\" tall cylinder-shaped beautiful DEEP PURPLE AMETHYST colored antique GINGER BRANDY bottle. This is a very early hand Blown Into Mold bottle (BIM) with a hand tooled lip, dating it back well OVER ONE CENTURY OLD, that is, OVER 100 YEARS old.

Bottle embossed: \"AMIDONS / UNION / GINGER / AND / N / BRANDY / REGISTERED\".
Condition: This bottle is in very nice condition. It could be left at that ... but when held up in the light you can see traces of content haze. Otherwise it is just a great looking bottle with NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. A very tall - slender bottle with LOTS OF PURPLE color to look at. PLEASE see photos for overall condition.
Age: An early hand-blown bottle (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a tooled-lip, ca. late 1800\'s.
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What a unique bottle with the risque embossed picture of a bare breasted woman! Lady Godiva? Madonna? The mayor of Travelers Rest South Carolina? I believe AMIDONS was the name of the company that produced this bottle and the UNION title has to do with the type of liquor in it. It is noted that F. S. Amidons was at one time the successor to Dr. A.S. Hopkins, the originalsole proprietor of Dr. Hopkin\'s Celebrated UNION Stomach Bitters, a patent medicine product that was manufactured back in Hartford Conn. in the latter 1800\'s. So the UNION name seems to be affiliated with Amidon\'s two products, BITTERS and BRANDY. Note the girl that is embossed on this bottle is quite significant, she stands a full6 inches tall, is baring her breasts, and the details are boldly projected from the glass. This is the only hand blown bottle that I know of, from the 1800\'s, that has a bare breasted woman embossed on it. That is unique. Then too, it has the word \"AND\" upside down (???) and squeezed in between GINGER / BRANDY.Then too, there is theDARK PURPLE color. You hear about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ...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. But here it the best part about this bottle and the picture on it:With a clear glass object, you see through it, and the embossing reflects what ever patterns and colors are in the background. Yet with this deep purple color, you are looking, not through the glass but right AT the embossing, which accentuates it and makes every detail stand out / jump right out at you. As seen in the pictures, you can really see the features of this girl as the purple glass gives it another dimension! Another thing about the purple color is that, with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 will turn sun-colored-amethyst. Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking bottle, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique, check it out!

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