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rare and intact c. 1876-78 chicago privy dug deep blue aqua glass soda bottle with semi-round bottom manufactured for chicago bottler william h. hutchinson.
  • rare and intact c. 1876-78 chicago privy dug deep blue aqua glass soda bottle with semi-round bottom manufactured for chicago bottler william h. hutchinson.
rare and intact c. 1876-78 chicago privy dug deep blue aqua glass soda bottle with semi-round bottom manufactured for chicago bottler william h. hutchinson.

rare and intact c. 1876-78 chicago privy dug deep blue aqua glass soda bottle with semi-round bottom manufactured for chicago bottler william h. hutchinson.

SKU: UR-22532-15
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original unusually-shaped c. 1876-78 deep blue aqua soda bottle with semi-round bottom manufactured for chicago bottler william h. hutchinson. the tall shouldered cylinder is vertically embossed "w.h.h. / chicago ills", and is finished with a squat neck and an applied oval blob top. at the rounded base is a centrally embossed "h". crudities like bubbles and seeding are typical of the age and date of manufacture. the hutchinson family bottling works, with its various partnerships and different bottling focuses over the years, was one of two generation-spanning corporate giants among nineteenth century bottling works (the other being the john a. lomax company). from pre-civil war times to the early 1880s these two companies competed aggressively for the share of chicago soda, small beer, and ale bottling market. after the early 1880s the hutchinson company changed course, ceased beverage bottling, and focused on its manufacturing of bottler's equipment and supplies to the industry. at the time of this bottle's manufacture, in 1876, george c. hutchinson rejoined the bottling business and from 1876-1878 bottles were embossed "w.h. hutchinson & son". in the 1877 chicago city directory william h. hutchinson himself was listed as a member of the bottling business for the last time, as he passed away later that year.

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