Some bottles for your viewing pleasure

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The bottom says K. Hutter New York and a date, Karl Hutter was a prolific in the bottle industry...

This is from the great sodasandbeers.com site...

Hutter, Karl, (1877-1913)

New York, NY, United States

Appears on soda and beer bottles. Hutter started out his career as a beer bottler and ended up in the bottler supply business. His main claim to fame was being assigned sole rights to Charles De Quillfeldt's beer bottle closure, when it was reissued in 1877. Hutter renamed it the "Lightning Stopper" and it quickly became the standard for the beer bottling industry. He survived several patent infringement lawsuits during the early 1880s when his office was at 185 Bowery Street in New York and a manufactory in Bennington, Vermont. At that time, he had a large trade with glass houses acting as a "representative character" between the bottler and glass works. In 1892, Hutter's office at 32 Reade Street sustained fire damage. In 1893, he patented an improvement to the Lightning, which consisted of a ceramic plug with a rubber washer to replace the metallic head of the Lightning. In 1904, the business was still located at 32 Reade Street. Hutter committed suicide after a long illness at his apartment overlooking Central Park on June 15, 1913. He was 62. At that time, the business was located at 241 Lafayette Street in New York City. The firm later became Karl Hutter, Inc. and was still in business as late as 1930 at 241 Reade Street location. The markings are on the base or the reverse heel of the bottle.
 

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.... good info and encouragement here!

Harry, I wonder if this other one looks more like the one you found in the Edisto, nothing on the bottom of this one either.... I thought I had another.... thing about keeping bottles up high and kind of out of direct sight like I do, I forget what I have sometimes.... alas, I'm just happy she lets me keep them inside.

(wierd, it wouldn't let me "manage attatchments" below, had to "insert image" from above :icon_scratch:)

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Harry Pristis

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No, it appears that we have three variants of the Jessen bottle. Notice that the "J" on the front of my bottle is small and inside an embossed circle (not a slugplate). Also, the "... not to be sold" embossment is tight and low on the reverse of my bottle (you can make it out in my image above).
 

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Wonder why the reason for the variants?
 

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Despite '...not to be sold' embossment, these bottles had to be replaced. Over time, Jessen's replacement bottles were blown in different molds perhaps at different glasshouses.
 

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Doooh, In my excitement over finding the other Jessen bottle I'd forgot the pic you posted of yours on page one.... AADD hyperactivity :tongue3:... Sorry for not paying better attention!
 

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This one came from the island of Maui (I have a few others from the island).... lots of stuff down in the gulches...got this surf board too (another affinity)...good times.
 

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