Which bottle style was used for Coca-Cola's first bottling in 1894?

Coca-Cola’s first bottling in 1894 used Hutchinson bottles.

The first bottled Coca-Cola was produced on March 12, 1894, at the Biedenharn Candy Company in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Joseph A. Biedenharn bottled the drink after previously serving it from soda fountains. His bottles were Hutchinson bottles, a common late-19th-century design that used an internal wire-and-glass stopper to seal carbonated beverages.

These bottles looked very different from the contoured Coca-Cola bottle most people recognize today. The familiar “hobble-skirt” or contour design was introduced in 1915, more than two decades after the first bottling. Codd bottles are another type of historic carbonated-drink bottle, but they were not the style used for Coca-Cola’s first bottling.

Bottling later expanded through a landmark 1899 agreement. Asa Candler granted Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead bottling rights for the United States for one dollar, helping create Coca-Cola’s long-running network of independent bottlers.