Delta Mfg Co, Greenville, Miss.

[Dave W.C.]

New member here. I picked this up over the weekend. The bottle has a slight purple hue, and the seam appears to run to the lip. Text reads "DELTA MFG CO" and "GREENVILLE, MISS". There is also an internal stopper.

Can anyone identify the age, and what it contained?

Thanks!

Dave

 

[UnderMiner]

Well I can tell you the basics. What you have is a Hutchinson Bottle, that's the name of both the style of the bottle and method of its closure - the Hutchinson stopper, which is that piece of spring steal with the rubber attached to it.

This type of bottle and stopper were produced from around 1879-1912 (roughly between the time of Billy the Kid until the sinking of the RMS Titanic).

The bottle would have originally been clear glass but clear glass back then contained a chemical called manganese which turns purple on exposure to sunlight (ultra violet light). This means your bottle was exposed to quite a bit of sunlight over the course of its 112+ year existence.

Your bottle likely contained some sort of carbonated soda.

 

[Dave W.C.]

Well I can tell you the basics. What you have is a Hutchinson Bottle, that's the name of both the style of the bottle and method of its closure - the Hutchinson stopper, which is that piece of spring steal with the rubber attached to it.

This type of bottle and stopper were produced from around 1879-1912 (roughly between the time of Billy the Kid until the sinking of the RMS Titanic).

The bottle would have originally been clear glass but clear glass back then contained a chemical called manganese which turns purple on exposure to sunlight (ultra violet light). This means your bottle was exposed to quite a bit of sunlight over the course of its 112+ year existence.

Your bottle likely contained some sort of carbonated soda.

Thanks for the info!