15-01-2021, 12:41 PM
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Re: A collection of ...
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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I like those. I watch Bargain Hunt & they often buy those for the auction they are going to. Some obscurely labeled bottles are worth more than others. Have you got rare ones?
Just a quick Google search found a set of 4 with the gold embossed label and ground glass stoppers at £399!
They are about 1900 vintage - the others are older.
I will need to get them valued I think.
The fancy Interior Decor type shops sell them at outrageous prices.
I just collected them as I used to teach Chemistry!
15-01-2021, 02:35 PM
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Re: A collection of ...
Originally Posted by toners
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I collected those quite a few years ago- usually paying a few pounds. Like you I spotted some on Bargain Hunt and was surprised at their value now. Just a quick Google search found a set of 4 with the gold embossed label and ground glass stoppers at £399!
They are about 1900 vintage - the others are older.
I will need to get them valued I think.
The fancy Interior Decor type shops sell them at outrageous prices.
I just collected them as I used to teach Chemistry!
15-01-2021, 03:04 PM
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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.
15-01-2021, 04:56 PM
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Re: A collection of ...
Originally Posted by Mags
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I collect £2 coins normally but haven't used cash since last March so my pot is looking a bit low at the moment. 
16-01-2021, 03:24 PM
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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 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.
16-01-2021, 04:05 PM
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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.
16-01-2021, 04:42 PM
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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.
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