Henry W. Putnam Glass Company

Henry W. Putnam was born in 1825 in Essex, NY and entered the glass business at the age of 34 with a patent for a wire contraption that held a cork in place in the mouth of a bottle. Putnam’s history is tied up in that of Charles de Quillfeldt and Karl Hutter, both of whom were also inventors and producers of glassware and stoppers; in 1875, de Quillfeldt patented the Lightning stopper, which Hutter and Putnam would both sell, as well as imitations of the same. Putnam got his own patent for a similar product in 1877, and in 1878 Putnam advertised that the Lightning bottle stopper was made only by him. Because of the overlap between these three men in products, trademarks, and patents, historians believe there must have been some kind of agreement between them. In 1882, Putnam was issued a patent Lightning closure for wide-mouth jars, challenging screw cap closures used by Mason jars. These stoppers and others like them are still in use today; the below 1901 advertisement showcases just how many variations on a theme Putnam sold.
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Lockhart, Bill, Beau Schriever, Bill Lindsey, and Carol Serr. Henry W. Putnam and the Lightning Fastener. Society for Historical Archaeology. 2016.

https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/HenryPutnam.pdf