Re: A collection of ...
Originally Posted by
toners
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Thanks Tiff.
There are some smaller bottles and some old beer, wine,ink, poisons and fizzy drink bottles in a separate collection. Some of them I dug up from overgrown Victorian rubbish dumps. (The leisure of youth!) The bits of tobacco pipes came out of my garden- discarded by the Victorian builders.
Not the clearest of pictures but you can see the fizzy drink bottles that were stoppered by glass marbles. The wooden cap on one in the photo was used to push the marble down to release the fizzy pressure and pour the drink out. Called Codd bottles- hence Codd's Wallop (the drink). Of course children used to smash the bottles to get the marbles out.
At the back the very dark tall bottle is an old Geneva or Gin bottle.
I knew about the wooden stopper to release the drink from bottles with the marbles in them, but I have seen one before your picture. Thanks for that.
I was guilty of smashing a bottle to get the "glass eye or glass alley" marble out when I was a kid. They were prized, and worth more in a game of marbles, because they were clear without the usual splash of colour normal marbles had.
I have one of the bottles in a display unit, but your collection is much more impressive.
I like the medicine bottles as well.
I always wanted one of the giant bottles you sometimes see in a chemist shop window.
Ah those were the days when you could go to a chemist shop to buy chemicals to use in home experiments or make things that go bang.