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.
Ref: Karl Hutter, “Bottle Stopper,” U.S. Patent 491,113 (Feb. 7, 1893).
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