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Old 26-05-2013, 10:11 AM
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The broken one probably broken deliberately by kids back in the day for the glass marble inside!
My grandmother could remember breaking "Codd"* bottles as a child for the marble I recall, when showing her my latest 'find' back in the 70's when I went looking for these things.

*Hiram Codd being the inventor.
on that page: 'His earlier bottles are prized by antique bottle collectors worldwide'


here's an Alnwick Brewery Codd bottle with a slightly different design to the 'pinches' in the neck for trapping the marble:

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