Bottles With Marbles In Neck Value

This made for a very efficient and durable seal.

Bottles with marbles in neck value.

You ve probably seen codd neck bottles before the ones with the marble in the neck but you might not know they are collectors items and the rarest ones sell for hundreds at auction. In 1872 british soft drink maker hiram codd of camberwell london designed and patented a bottle designed specifically for carbonated drinks. By mid 1873 he had granted 20 licenses and received a further 50 applications. Wanted to buy old bottles with marble in neck plus stone ginger beer bottles demijohns pot lids thanks.

By 1874 the licence was free to bottle manufacturers as long as they purchased the marbles sealing rings and used his groove tool. The bottle going for the highest price on ebay is a dark amber colour and is on sale for a whopping 900. Also looking to purchase motor oil bottles and old tins and fishing reels. We are looking to purchase large amounts of antique bottles be it codd marbles ginger beers lamonts medicine or crown seal.

A codd neck bottle is a type of bottle used for carbonated drinks. Earlier and original codd bottles are prized by antique bottle collectors worldwide. Mineral water manufacturers who wanted to use codd s globe stopper bottles had to pay a yearly fee for a licence to use his patent bottle. The bottle was designed and manufactured with thick.

Make offer codd bottle w marble in neck tattersall bros cannington shaw co. These bottles had to be manufactured in two parts. See more ideas about bottle antiques antique bottle. It has a closing design based on a glass marble which is held against a rubber seal which sits within a recess in the lip.

Marble bottles or codd s patent bottles were by far the most popular used patent throughout the british colonies. Many imitators followed with other inventors making minor modifications to the codd design but keeping with the basic idea of the marble and rubber gasket but generally any subsequent marble in neck bottle was simply known as a codd marble bottle. Vintage codd neck bottle aqua blue marble embossed schofield bros liverpool 9 17 99 1d 5h. See today s marble glass bottles for sale best offer and auction.

Some of these bottles have remained sealed for more than 100 years at first glance codd s idea appears brilliantly simple. Dec 31 2015 explore c cahayla s board antique codd marble bottles followed by 249 people on pinterest. His bottle used the effervescent pressure of the mineral water itself to force a marble against a rubber washer in the upper ring of the neck of the bottle. First invented by hiram codd in 1872 this innovative design incorporated a glass marble within a chamber usually in the neck of the bottle.