Soda Bottles

These bottles used in beer, mineral water, soft drinks, or fruit drinks. All of these bottles we call today "Deposit Bottles". Each bottle was the property of the bottler, and when you finished with the drink you where to return the bottle. There are five basic categories of these bottles, and each can easily be recognized by its shape, mostly by its top. An example of each is shown below. They are "Blob top", "Gravitating Stopper", "Crown top", "Hutch", and "Squat". The squats have two different types of tops: "Blob" (sometimes called "Pony"), and "Tapered Skirt"

Squat Blob o Pony

Squat Tapered Skirt

Hutch

Crown Top

Gravitating Stopper

Blob