Posted 10 years ago
bdan3610
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This bottle was dug up in wilkes-barre,pa. It is blue in color, it has Wm Giffiths wilkes barre pa on the side and a WG logo on the bottom. Also it has what looks like a metal and rubber stopper in the bottle . please help me figure out what this bottle is I've looked everywhere on the internet but couldn't come up with anything .
Thanks
Brandon
"The Hutchinson spring stopper consisted of a rubber gasket that was held between two metal plates which were both attached to a wire spring loop. When inserted into the the bore of a bottle the lower gasket/plate portion hangs just below the short neck/shoulder interface with the upper portion of the wire loop extending just above the top of the finish rim. The internal pressure of the soda held the plate/gasket against the inside of the bottle sealing the product. The contents were accessed by pushing down on the top of the wire spring loop which released the pressure and opened the closure. When pushed down slightly to open, the stopper stayed in place - i.e., did not drop to the bottom of the bottle due to the indentations on each side of the spring handle."
"Between the mid-1880's and about 1905, the Hutchinson closure was probably the most common closure found on American soda bottles."
The sound it made on opening is where the name "soda pop" came from. Coke was bottled in them in their beginnings.
Thank you for your information.the stopper is very cool and I never knew they existed. I still can't find any history on WM Griffiths in Wilkes barre ,pa . or what the bottle is worth .