Codd Bottle

Also known as:
Marbles, Codds, Allies, Pigsnouts, Globestopper bottles etc

An Englishman invented these bottles by the name of Hiram Codd in the 1870's to contain aerated water (soft drink), at the time drink manufactures were faced with problems of corks and stoppers leaking and contaminating the bottles contents.

The bottle is basically a glass bottle where the glass is pinched inwards at the bottles shoulder to hold a glass marble which is the bottles "closure".
The glass marble was pressured against a rubber ring by carbonic gas contained in the soft drink thus keeping it airtight and retaining the fizz in the drink. In fact a glass marble was ideal that it was impossible to dry out such us corks did, the stopper could never be lost with out breaking the bottle and being glass it couldn't contaminate the contents.
These bottles were used widely in Australia from about the 1880's right through to the 1940's , some used them even up to the 1960's

These sixty odd years of popular use has left a legacy or literally 1000's of bottles bearing different brands and trademarks.
These glass bottles can vary in color from clear to aqua, greens, amber's, blue's, purples and black.