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| Old Food Bottles (3 Purpled) |
These are old food container bottles found along the Treasure Coast.. This type of bottle seems to be more likely than others to turn purple. That is said to be caused by manganese dioxide used in the glass before 1914, although that is not a perfect cut-off date and some bottles, including more recent example, were artificially purpled.
In my finds, it seems the most sun-purpled bottles are food container bottles. Maybe pickle bottles. I always wondered if the contents might have some effect on purpling, but I've seen no evidence of that in the literature.
I do have a couple pharmacy bottles that are nicely purpled, but other than that very little purpling among my finds.
The bottle on the right is the only one marked with a patent date - Aug. 20, 1901. Of course, the patent date isn't the date of manufacture, which you'd expect to be somewhat later.
None of these are blown bottles. The unpurpled bottle has the seams that would suggest an older age than the others. The general impression would be that older bottles are more likely to be more purpled, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
It seems you can't tell much about age from sun-purpling other than the general date of 1914 being generally accepted as general dividing line.
Below is another food container bottle, but that one has a maker's mark (J. K. & S), which dates it to around 1857 - 1900, older than the above bottles, and obviously a different type of glass (light green) that did not purple
The J K & S bottle, which features a rare marker's mark, was previously posted in the tgbottlebarn.blogspot.com site. I just posted this material about other four bottles on the bottle site.
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Here is an interesting story.
For centuries, the joyful pealing of church bells was the heartbeat of European life. The bells marked holidays, called parishioners to worship, and rang at times of celebration. But during World War II, a chilling silence fell across the continent when Hitler’s troops began confiscating the bells to melt them down for armaments. During the war, Germany stole some 175,000 church bells. Still others were removed and hidden to prevent them from being looted. Following the war, extensive efforts were made to reunite surviving bells with their original homes. That effort continues to this day, with buried bells uncovered as recently as 2021.
Starting as early as 1939 and escalating dramatically, Nazi troops began systematically confiscating church bells... Nazis divided the looted bells into four groups – categories A through D. Category A bells were the newest and the first to face the furnace. Category D bells, which were as old as 200 years, carried the most historical value.
The bells were made of bronze and once smelted, were incorporated into the German armament industry...
Decades after the war, communities whose beloved church bells were hidden from the Nazis are still finding buried treasure. In 1994, a 450-pound bell was found buried in Emmaste, Estonia. In 2021, researchers near Krosno, Poland, uncovered a bell that had been buried for 80 years...
Here is the link for the rest of the story.
The Lost Church Bells of World War II - Fold3 HQ
If you study World War II history you will discover the worst of humanity along with a seemingly endless number of feats attesting to the best of mankind.
Check out fold3.com for a very extensive collectoin of U. S. military history.
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| Fort Pierce South Beach Zoom View from the Surfguru.com Beach Cam. |
The above clip was captured right around high tide. The water at high tide was right up to the foot of the dune.
The tides are not real high but we are getting a gook brisk east wind.
You might want to check some of the beaches today.
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| Surf Chart From Surfguru.com. |