by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Solitaire marble, battered exterior, with pink, white and red twirling strands inside.
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
Codds for W. Ingram of Southend and R. White’s of London, who made lemonade etc. The larger one on the left has lugs to catch the marble when pouring on both the left and the right, so that the pourer did not have to turn it the right way round to prevent the...
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
Codd bottles for lemonade or mineral water, embossed ‘Hammond, Southend-on-Sea’, around a trademark. The one on the right has lugs to catch the marble when pouring on both the left and the right, so that the pourer did not have to turn it the right way...
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
Codd bottles embossed ‘W. G. Osborne & Son, Pall Mall, Leigh-on-Sea’. They contained lemonade or mineral water and retain the rubbing ring in the neck which held the marble when the bottle was full, forming an airtight seal.
by Tom Licence | Jan 25, 2015
Glass marbles with swirling designs, and an earthenware one with a crossed lines pattern, which has been in a destructor.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Marbles, originally painted in bright colours.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Marbles from Codd bottles. They were cast a dozen at a time and snapped from a central circular matrix and ground to smoothness by factory women. Children broke the necks off the bottles to get the marbles. This impacted on the rates at which the bottles were returned...
