There is also a very collectable 10oz Cresswell & Co Smethwick Reliance Patent Codd Bottle with a Cobalt blue lip in the sale. Some collectors aim to own as many variations as possible with ...

Carbonated drinks needed bottles strong enough to stand the build up of pressure and to keep the 'fizz' inside. In 1872 Hiram Codd introduced a design featuring a glass marble to keep it airtight.

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

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 ...