The Hutchinson stopper

[blobbottlebob]

That is so cool. I would bid on it! I have been looking for old postards with people drinking out of a hutch. There has got to be some out there. I can't find one, though. It seems that in the good old days, people would strike a somber pose in pictures.

 

[thesodafizz]

I would like share your photos and info (with proper credit) with my Soda Fizz readers?

If you are not already a subscriber, I'll send you a copy. Will just need your name/address to do so.

K

 

[blobbottlebob]

I don't mind sharing the info at all. I mostly threw that together quickly for the forum. If you'd like, I could work up better text and higher resolution pictures. Let me know.

 

[blobbottlebob]

I sell 11" x 14" reprints at bottle shows and occasionally on ebay.

Hey Celerycola,
Let me know the next time you are listing one. Thanks, Bob

 

[celerycola]

Here's another 11x14" Hutchinson ad I reprint.

 

[blobbottlebob]

Very cool. The text is too small to read. Is it advertising to bottlers or the actual end consumer?

 

[RED Matthews]

Hello celerycola, So what do you do - sell these reprints? RED Matthews

 

[celerycola]

That was a full page ad from the National Bottlers Gazette directed at bottlers. I have a lot of different soda ads I've cleaned up and sharpened the old print and brightened color for the ads in color. I sell these at bottle shows and on ebay. They fit a standard 11" x 14" frame or mat. I have them listed here:

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=kolawars&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1

 

[Wilkie]

There was a company in San Francisco that manufactured Aetna Mineral Water and Aetna Soda Water. I wonder if this stopper could have been made by them? Or atleast "for" them?

ORIGINAL: blobbottlebob

From my discussions with Ron Fowler, I learned that the Hutchinson company was notorious for vigorously defending their patents. They would seek to drive out of business any 'infringer'. This stopper is clearly one such example. It is from AETNA. I have seen that name many times on lightning style rubber seals for beer bottles. (While this example looks like AE7NA, I do have others where the T is better stamped).

 

[blobbottlebob]

Hi Wilkie,
I have found several different types of local bottlers that used this type of stopper. It may be possible that the company dabbled in soda water supplies and marketed the stoppers to bottlers. I have definitely never found any hutches from that far west in Wisconsin.