Here’s a beautiful amethyst glass antique cigar jar humidor from Virginia with its original metal collar and lid.. Bold emb on bottom. Blank circle slug plate on front of jar…. 5 1/2″tall x 5 1/4″round….. Excellent shiny attic near mint condition with no chips or damage. A nice clean jar. Original metal threaded collar with metal lid which has a spring clip hinged lid which opens up. This cigar jar is over 110 years old. IF YOU LIVE WITHIN THE U. Unless you contact me first. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you for your business…. Your friendly fellow collector, Digger Dave Beeler. FRESH LISTINGS NEARLY EVERY DAY. We stand proudly in support of our military men and women and their families. The beautiful amethyst or purple color of this glass is a result of the presence of manganese in the glass, which was a decolorizer to turn the glass clear. Glass that contains manganese, when exposed to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, causes the glass to turn amethyst. Some of my amethyst bottles and glass are purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight. Others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a boxand some have been purpled by running them through a water sterilization plant, which is a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as many years of exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. To those “purists” who falsely believe that glass cannot turn this deep amethyst color naturally, I could take you to places where bottles and glass have turned this same shade of purple from being in the sunlight for many years. The item “AMETHYST PURPLE GLASS 1890s CIGAR JAR 2ND DISTRICT VA WITH ORIGINAL METAL LID” is in sale since Monday, November 13, 2017. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Tobacciana\Cigars\Humidors\Antique & Vintage”. The seller is “diggerdaveb” and is located in Hillsboro, Illinois. This item can be shipped worldwide.