Posted 8 years ago
Hjmcfarland
(3 items)
Hello, thank you for looking at my item! I was wondering if anyone knew any information about it? I love to collect honey and bee things! My family owned a honey shop and my Dad had a honey bee farm and harvested our own honey to sell at our shop when I was a little girl. My love for all things related to bees and honey have continued to grow and to this day I enjoy collecting. I purchased this item online and cant find ANYTHING about it! All I can say is its a honey jar missing its cork top, its a very dark purple color, has bubbles in the glass, its square shaped, it has text embossed on the front, "GUARANTEED PURE HONEY DIRECT FROM THE BEES" Ive no idea if its vintage/antique or reproduction. I got it online in a auction. The only information I had was the auction description, that it was rare, and probably purple from the sun, that there was a small flea bite/chip on the rim, and that there are a lot of clear square "Honey Acres" honey bottles all the time for sale with the traditional Skep embossed on the front with the amount of honey listed underneath it, such as 1 pound or 4 oz, but never this jar. I messaged the seller before the auction ended and asked questions but she said she was listing it for a friend and couldn't get ahold of him...the seller also stated they knew nothing else about it and that they had never seen a jar like it...weird I know...there are NO markings anywhere on the jar and I have tried to research it a few times and cant find a thing! Please help with any information as I do love this jar and know nothing about it, so frustrating! lol. Anyway, thanks for looking!
Don't know any specifics on it but it could be artificially 'irritiated' to turn it that tone of purple. Yes if left out in the sun for a long period it would turn a slight purple. I love that saying though. Very neat!
It started out clear, but the composition of the glass made it a candidate for turning 'amethyst', as the bottle world calls it. Light shades are natural due to the Sun's rays. Darker shades like this are done by people to try and sell them as rare colours or look 'prettier'. Your seller may or may not have known it was artificially irradiated. It can be mostly undone (leaving the bottle 'straw coloured', I'm told), but it involves high heat (which I recommend against).
The good news is, the composition of glass changed (for the most part) in about 1920, so you likely have an older bottle, not a newer reproduction like many of the other type of honey jar you mentioned.
It looks like the seam ends before the top, so it's likely before 1915.
More information on it (company, location, etc.) would have been provided on the paper label, but that is (of course) no longer present.
Great piece to put in a safe, sunny window.