Odd closures are so AWESOME!!!!!

[hemihampton]

It's got a big A.G.W.L. on bottom for makers mark. A Friend with access to all the Detroit Directories said it was only listed for one year, 1897 or maybe 1898, forgot. BUT, a 1 year or less then 1 year run of any bottle from 1800's would be hard to come by. I only know of 1 other, rumor of maybe 2 known besides mine. LEON.

 

[PlaneDiggerCam]

Dug these Baltimore Club whiskey bottles with an odd porcelain closure on them.

 

[UncleBruce]

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Dug these Baltimore Club whiskey bottles with an odd porcelain closure on them.

Those are very odd.

 

[UncleBruce]

Shown here is an ALBERT ALBERTSON "GRAVITATING STOPPER". Patent #44684. This example is the only bottle I have that retains the actual stopper. For display I wound a rubber band around the end so that I could display the bottle with the stopper in place. I have seen these made of a different kind of material, which I am not sure what the composition of those are, but my example is glass. There is a bit of faint tiny writing on the side of the stopper. It is embossed:
PATENTED
AUG. 26, 1862
OCT. 11, 1864
APRIL 15, 1873

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

Shown here is an ALBERT ALBERTSON "GRAVITATING STOPPER". Patent #44684. This example is the only bottle I have that retains the actual stopper. For display I wound a rubber band around the end so that I could display the bottle with the stopper in place. I have seen these made of a different kind of material, which I am not sure what the composition of those are, but my example is glass. There is a bit of faint tiny writing on the side of the stopper. It is embossed:
PATENTED
AUG. 26, 1862
OCT. 11, 1864
APRIL 15, 1873
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I love your stuff brother! Thanks for deciphering the embossing. I cannot remove this one. I thought my stopper said 1862 I just wasn't sure. I thought i was seeing things. Any chance this invention was in use by Albert Albertson before the sale of the patent to Matthews in 1864?
ROBBYBOBBY64.

 

[nhpharm]

That's a real good question. I've never seen one. The attached is the earliest version I have seen (where it still says Albertson's Stopper and has the 1864 patent date only). This style had a wooden stopper rather than glass.

 

[UncleBruce]

I love your stuff brother! Thanks for deciphering the embossing. I cannot remove this one. I thought my stopper said 1862 I just wasn't sure. I thought i was seeing things. Any chance this invention was in use by Albert Albertson before the sale of the patent to Matthews in 1864?
ROBBYBOBBY64.

This is all I've got from BOTTLE CLOSURES by David Graci

 

[hemihampton]

It seems that when Hutchinson invented his Hutchinson Spring Stopper closure in 1879 it quickly took over & made the Gravitating Stopper Bottle obsolete. LEON.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

This is all I've got from BOTTLE CLOSURES by David Graci
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What book is this from?? Would love to get a coiled spring stopper with the bottle of course...lol! I love that it prevented drinking from the bottle, or at the very least made it difficult.
ROBBYBOBBY64.

 

[ROBBYBOBBY64]

That's a real good question. I've never seen one. The attached is the earliest version I have seen (where it still says Albertson's Stopper and has the 1864 patent date only). This style had a wooden stopper rather than glass.

This might be the missing link? So to speak.

That's a real good question. I've never seen one. The attached is the earliest version I have seen (where it still says Albertson's Stopper and has the 1864 patent date only). This style had a wooden stopper rather than glass.

That is one I never saw. I wonder if there are ones without Matthew's name. Thanks for the pictures nhpharm! Could make a replacement stopper on a wood lathe. I also have to mention, my wandering eyes spotted a Cannon in the background. Wow! Would love to dig one of those!
ROBBYBOBBY64.