He carefully scraped away the soil to reveal an old bottle with a marble in the neck. The farmer gave it to Jamys , and since then Jamys has started collecting old glass bottles. The writing on ...

The Codd-neck bottle, as it was called, enclosed a marble and a rubber washer/gasket in the neck. The pressure of the gas in the bottle forced the marble against the washer, sealing in the ...

There is also a very collectable 10oz Cresswell & Co Smethwick Reliance Patent Codd Bottle with a Cobalt ... This example is a ‘bulb neck’ bottle and is moulded with the oval pictorial ...

Hiram Codd patented the marble-in-neck design bottle in 1872 and there are thought to be over 500 different types. Some collectors aim to own as many variations as possible with several different ...

The 'Codd' design with a marble was used exclusively as boys liked to break the bottles to get the marble out.