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Here are some better photos of the two Baltimore Loop Seal D. H. Smith bottles. This style of closure was used from 1886-1906. A rubber disk with a wire loop sat inside a groove within the blob and was extracted with a special hooked tool. The tool had a tapered rubber handle which could then be jammed into the bottle to act as a temporary stopper itself, though how often this was done is anyone's guess. 80% of these bottles were used for beer, only 20% for soda.
There was even an error:
There was even an error: