Bottle Stopper
notes: label: Description
content: Ceramic bottle top with inscriptions that read “PAT’D / K. HUTTER / FEB. 7, 1893” and “J. D. AUG. HARTZ / 315 – 13th st. / COLLEGE POINT, N.Y.” Karl Hutter (1851-) was born in Germany, moved to the United States as a teenager, worked bottling beer, and invented several bottle stoppers. Johann D. Aug. Hartz was a pharmacist in College Point, a neighborhood in the borough of Queens, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Ref: Karl Hutter, “Bottle Stopper,” U.S. Patent 491,113 (Feb. 7, 1893).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of St. James General Store and Hartz Drug Company Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13867
label: catalog number
content: M-13867
label: accession number
content: 292537
objectType: label: Object Name
content: seal
label: Object Name
content: bottle top
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 7/8 in; 2.54 cm x 2.2225 cm