Many different stoppers were used with crown top bottles including the lightning stopper. This is the Charles de Quillfeldt lighting stopper on a semi abm bottle.
"Registered" embossed around the shoulders usually indicates pre-1910...
Shows up on the BIM crowntops from here.
One company here that used "Registered" and slug plates and BIM crowns wasn't established until 1907.
thanks cap!! thanks for clearing that up! believe it or not lighting stoppers were used alot more than you think i was amazed by the amount of machine made bottles that used it, some one should reproduce these mike
Hey Mike, Seems like what ever a manufacturer was use to is what they stayed with. Hutches were in use until 1924 around here and lightning stoppers until the teens.