PELLUCID
04-08-2008, 09:34 AM
As some of you know, I pick up a LOT of sea glass. I'm usually pretty good at identifying the source of the odd pieces (for instance, flourescent light bulb bases produce pretty blue buttons) but three round "sea marbles" I found had me stumped.
At first I thought they were just chunks of glass worn spherical in a rock hole. But why all the same size? And why odd shades of blue, rather than the more common green, brown, or clear?
I think I have the answer -- they are stoppers to Codd bottles. These were oddly designed bottles to hold soda water and other carbonated fluids. Here's a link: http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/codd.htm
If I'm correct, this makes the glass quite old as they were manufactured from 1872 until the early 1930's, mostly in the UK.
Do any old-timers recall drinks or medicines being sold in the kinds of bottles in the Bahamas or the US? Or did they float all the way over from England?
At first I thought they were just chunks of glass worn spherical in a rock hole. But why all the same size? And why odd shades of blue, rather than the more common green, brown, or clear?
I think I have the answer -- they are stoppers to Codd bottles. These were oddly designed bottles to hold soda water and other carbonated fluids. Here's a link: http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/codd.htm
If I'm correct, this makes the glass quite old as they were manufactured from 1872 until the early 1930's, mostly in the UK.
Do any old-timers recall drinks or medicines being sold in the kinds of bottles in the Bahamas or the US? Or did they float all the way over from England?