Antique LIME ROCK FLUX sample in glass SHOW GLOBE Anaconda MONTANA Mining Works

Description: A 4 inch tall cylinder-shaped PAPER THIN clear-glass ANTIQUE INVERTED SHOW GLOBE filled with LIME ROCK flux samples and with an Anaconda Montana Reduction Works paper label still on it. It is FULL of the samples and it is still sealed with the original CORK STOPPER. This is an ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand Blown Into Mold glass show-globe (BIM) with a tooled top, that dates back to the late-1800's - very early 1900 era. ORIGINAL paper label reads: "LIME ROCK (FLUX) / ANACONDA REDUCTION WORKS / ANACONDA, MONTANA". Condition: Show globe is in pristine sparkling clean condition. It has NO cracks, chips, dings, damage, etc. The contents are pure and clean, they've been sealed in this little show globe for 125 years or so and look just like the day they were on display. The label too is in very good condition, PLEASE see pictures to get the best idea of bottle, contents, and label's appearance/condition. Age: An ORIGINAL ANTIQUE hand-blown show globe (Blown-In-Mold = BIM) with a wide, tooled-top, ca. late-1800's - very early 1900 era. Shipping: FREE DOMESTIC shipping. We DO ship Internationally but we do NOT insure International orders UNLESS BUYER SPECIFICALLY REQUESTS THIS AND WE ARE ABLE to provide an insurance estimate. It is becoming increasingly difficult to insure international orders and the price can exceed the price of the item, which can negate the sale. 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.Last summer an old wooden box showed up in Butte, Montana, with some of these little old glass show globes in it. They had been boxed up decades ago, where they sat without seeing the light of day for who knows how long. Butte is where the original Anaconda mine was which supplied copper to the Anaconda Copper Mining Co (ACM) smelters in Anaconda. I believe these little show globes were on display, maybe in the business office of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co's old smelter works in ANACONDA, MONTANA or maybe in the pioneer days of the Mining Museum on top of the richest hill on early, old Butte, Montana. This vessel is referred to as an 'INVERTED SHOW GLOBE', and depending on the need, these were used to display medicines, herbs, powders, dried flowers, minerals and mining specimens, organics, small mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians in formaldehyde, etc., and would sit in an old cabinet, in a museum, on a counter, in a display place of a business where they could be readily seen. I am not a geologist so I don't know much about the mineral samples in this little globe but I am a bottle collector and can tell that this show globe is WELL OVER A CENTURY OLD as it glows when put under a black light, showing it has manganese in the glass, used as a decolorizing agent, which DATES IT TO PRE - 1914. But to refine this date even more, this show globe was hand Blown Into a Mold (BIM) and the wide flared lip was hand finished with a lipping tool. It was blown into a turn mold, a mold that the glass blower spun so that the centrifugal force thinned out the glass, made it paper thin, then left it with a beautiful translucent sheen, the ultimate finish, perfect for displaying products in it in the purest form. This was how early glass vessels were created UP UNTIL ABOUT 1903, when the Owen's Automatic Bottle Machine came into production. Anyway, of these that were discovered, all held different types of minerals/rocks/sample that I assume were mined in Montana back in the 1800's when mining was the mainstay of Montana. This is one of them, 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. We find that communication is the key to successful transactions so PLEASE completely read the item description AND ask questions before purchasing, thank you!5073-76z ALABAMA ALASKA ARIZONA ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT DELAWARE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FLORIDA GEORGIA HAWAII IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAINE MARYLAND MASSACHUSETTS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI MONTANA NEBRASKA NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA OHIO OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH VERMONT VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING.

Price: 499.99 USD

Location: Clancy, Montana

End Time: 2024-11-26T02:00:01.000Z

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