H. Rummel Hutchinson Blob Top Soda Bottle Charleston West Va WV Coca Cola? Coke?

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H. Rummel Bottle.
Continental US bidders only. See photos for details. Bottom of bottle marked d.o.c. 19. Lip of blob top has a chip out, see photos for look, sold as is. No other chips, Etc. Hand Blown, 2 leaf mold
Hutchinson soda bottles are known to collectors simply as “Hutch” bottles. It is a unique type of antique bottle that had a wire stopper inside the neck and blob of the bottle. The gasket is designed to seal the bottle below the neck at the shoulder of the bottle from the inside.
Henry Rummel founded the Rummel Bottling Works in 1893. Nearly a quarter of a century ago he founded the Charleston Bottling Works, the largest of its kind in West Virginia and the fifth largest in the country. In 1871, he located in Charleston and established here the first bottling plant for the manufacture of soft drinks.
Its chief product is Coca Cola, and more than 400,000 cases are manufactured annually.