With a lightning type closure, there is a rubber stopper held by a heavy wire that is used to hold the stopper in place or open the bottle. The has a wire and stopper that is in very good condition.
The type of closure was used mostly on beer and soda bottles, and also fruit canning jars.
Dating notes: In general, Lightning-type closures were popular on soda and beer bottles between the late 1870s to at least National Prohibition in 1920. After that time use was limited on beverage bottles; the crown cap dominated by then. The peak of use on soda bottles was the mid-1870s to early 1890s though some use was made at least until 1911 (Elliott & Gould 1988). For beer bottles, where this closure was as dominant as the Hutchinson closure was for soda bottles, the peak use period was wider than for sodas - about 1880 to the early 1910s (Feldhaus 1986; Elliott & Gould 1988). Source (sha.org).
This particular bottle is a little bit of an enigma for me. It was manufactured by the Hazel Atlas company and appears to me to be a later bottle than suggested by the paragraph above.
In this case, I'm not sure of the date. There seem to be contradicting indicators and information.
The Hazel Atlas Glass company was formed in 1902 out of a merger between the Atlas Company (circa 1880's) and the Hazel Company...
Hazel Atlas was so successful in their production, that they were the only Glass Company and one of the few publicly traded Companies in the USA to pay a stock dividend during all the depression years. Source: Hazel Atlas History (hazelatlasglass.com)
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