Lot
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| UKIAH SODA WORKS UKIAH CAL. Hutch 7” Tooled top with metal closure. Here’s a tough hutch to find from a northern most California town. Some interior haze but generally problem free and not much wear to talk about. Grades a 9.2. | $ 120 |
| EUREKA-CALIFORNIA SODA WATER CO S.F. with embossed eagle. 6 ¾” Possibly unique in amethyst. Tooled top. Here is another bottle from San Francisco. This one has an eagle that looks more like a seagull. We've never seen one in amethyst. Has some light wear on the highpoints and some interior stain. Tiny tink off base. Still has metal closure. Rare colorl Grades an 8.5. | $ 650 |
| SOMPS & HERVE SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 7 ¼” with mug base and applied top. This is one that is not listed in Markota, although the Somps name is recognized. The Herve name is also familiar. A fairly early hutch, this has some highpoint wear on the lower letters and of course the mug base. Basically an 8.5 hutch and the first one we’ve seen. | $ 230 |
| KOCA NOLA J ESPOSITO 812 & 814 WASHINGTON AVE PHILADA. Tooled top 7 ¾” with “JE” monogram on base. Yellowish amber tooled top. There is an open bubble over the “AV” in “AVE” but it is hardly noticed in this fully embossed and quite striking hutch. Really no highpoint wear to speak of, certainly a specimen. If you’re looking for the Esposito bottle, you’d be hard pressed to find one better than this. There are four Esposito Koca Nola hutches known and some fifty embossed and color variations including crown top soda bottles. It is believed there were 36 different franchises. A rare and desirable Koca Nola hutch has sold for as much as $5,000! Grades a 9.7 without the bubble. | $ 1,000 |
| PEARSON BROS. BODIE. Applied top, gravitating stopper style. 7 ¼” When it comes to hutches of gravitating stopper style sodas, few posses the desirability of this bottle. While the base is not embossed, they do come with information on the patent. Apparently they also come with a tooled top, this one being applied. They were made between 1882-91 and have never been more popular. This outstanding example is free of any sort of wear whatsoever. It is also a fairly deep aqua with nice light overall crudity. Truly a top specimen, there are not a lot of these to go around. Grades a 9.7. | $ 2,800 |
| RICHMOND SODA WORKS RSW POINT RICHMOND. 7” with tooled top. 1902-15. Here is a rare western hutch in beautiful condition, we can’t imagine a better example. This one has virtually no highpoint wear and is almost unimprovable. Grades a 9.7. | $ 425 |
| SOUTH MCALESTER BOTTLING WORKS SOUTH MCALESTER IND. TER. Tooled top. We were lucky enough to recently obtain a collection of sodas. Which included territory and colored hutches along with some blob style examples. We are offering these over the next couple auctions. Here’s a scarce Indian Territory bottle, and like most of these is the first we’ve sold. Chadick and his investors purchased land to the south of McAlester's General Store, and where the two rail lines crossed formed a natural trading crossroads, and quickly became a bustling community designated as South McAlester. The original town location became known familiarly as North McAlester or North Town although early U.S. Census records simply identified it as McAlester.
Condition is pretty good with a few scratches and wear here and there. Hutches are a real tough animal to find in good condition, we are offering some of the better examples. This one Grades an 8.5. | $ 550 |
| BONANZA BOTTLING CO. DAWSON, N.W.T. 7 ¾” Tooled top. Here is a real beauty from the Northwest Territory. It is a four-piece, taller than usual example. Loaded with whittle, it is quite a striking example. There is some wear on the lower letters and a scratch or two but otherwise this one displays absolutely mint. Dawson is now a ghost town merged with a tourist destination. They've managed to combine the old with the new. Click below for more information. Grades an 8.9. Est. $300-500. | $ 800 |
| H.O. KRUEGER GRAND FORKS DAK. Applied top. 7 ¼” Thanks to some well respected collectors we've received more information on these territory hutches. This example is from Dakota Territory, not really having anything to do with Oklahoma. “WIS. GLASS CO. MLW” on base. An early hutch, this has some decent crudity and is evident it’s fairly old. Condition is very nice with just a little haze. Grades 9.5, a terrific hutch from Dakota Territory. | $ 375 |
| STAR BOTTLING WORKS ANADARKO. O.T. T.&M. 6 7/8” (Catalog had D.T. which should have been O.T.) Here’s an Oklahoma Territory bottle with the tooled top. Of the bottles we received, many were either Oklahoma or Indian Territory. This one has a shade of amethyst and is in really nice condition with just a small flake or open bubble on the front heel. Back base has initials “I.G. CO. 433.” A neat example that Grades 8.9. | $ 800 |
| CRYSTAL BOTTLING WORKS LEHIGH, I.T. Tooled top with “ROUTE 290” on reverse base. Here’s an average condition example from Indian Territory. Overall it Grades about an 8, a fairly scarce bottle that presents itself quite well. | $ 550 |
| CROWN BOTTLING MFG. CO. ARDMORE, I.T. with EMBOSSED CROWN. 6 1/8” with “G” on base. Here’s another nice Indian Territory bottle. When the Cherokee Indians were literally kicked out of North Carolina and Georgia, they were forced into the only area where they could live. That place was Oklahoma. The incident is known as the Trail of Tears. There is a little haze on the inside, but very little in the way of wear. An overall nice example that Grades an 8.8. | $ 500 |
| MUSKOGEE BOTTLING MUSKOGEE, I.T. With “S” on base and tooled top. Here’s another Indian Territory bottle measuring 6 ¼”. This has some interior haze and some highpoint wear but generally is an overall nice bottle. Reads, “N.B.B.G. CO” with “630” on reverse base. Grades an 8.4. A federal court was established in the city in 1889 around the same time that Indian Territory was opened to settlers via land rushes.
| $ 375 |
| G.W. SCHLEGEL CHANDLER O.T. with “S” on base. Tooled top. Here is another Oklahoma Territory bottle from Chandler. Although we haven’t done a load of research on these yet, you can be sure we’ll have more online. This one is in great condition with whittle and overall Grades a 9.2. | $ 650 |
| STEAM BOTTLING WORKS SHAWNEE O.T. with embossed ANCHOR. Tooled top. 6 ¾” Here’s a great Oklahoma Territory hutch, this has the initials “A.G.W.” on reverse base area. There is a decent amount of scratching on reverse and apparently an old slug plate the size of a silver dollar. The embossing is not particularly worn and displays great. A nice picture territory hutch. Oklahoma became a state in 1907. Grade 8. | $ 650 |
