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IDENTIFYING HELP. - 5/23/2004 4:22:06 AM    apd75   Posts: 67 Joined: 5/22/2004 Status: offline NOT SURE WHAT THIS IS HOPE YOU CAN HELP. Attachment (1) < Message edited by apd75 -- 5/23/2004 7:55:03 AM > Post #: 1

RE: IDENTIFYING HELP. - 5/23/2004 10:08:00 AM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Hey apd75, This bottle is called a round bottom here in the states. It is also called a Maughm after the person who invented that style. It contained soda, areated water, and the like. It is made like that so that it will lay on its side thus keeping the cork moist in shipment from overseas. If the cork dried out, it would shrink, and the contents would lose its pressure. They are considered a common bottle but still a nice one to display in my opinion. Hope this helps. Happy Diggin, Kelley (in reply to apd75) Post #: 2

RE: IDENTIFYING HELP. - 5/23/2004 10:18:00 AM    kumtow   Posts: 171 Joined: 5/13/2004 From: Australia. Tropical Queensland Status: offline Hi apd75, You are holding a soda water bottle about circa 1880-1900. Designed to lay on it's side to prevent the cork from drying out. Cork stays wet, swells in the neck therefore no leaks or loss of contents. Same principal as storing good wines today. Soda water was very carbonated back then and inventors developed all sorts of cunning bottle and closure designs to keep the contents in the bottle. Tis what makes bottle collecting so interesting. Your bottle is quite common as it has no embossing that I can see. Some embossed ones and coloured glass ones can be worth a lot of money. Although it is a relatively common bottle no one I know of has ever dug one up then thrown it away. I personally have thrown thousands of other bottles away in the early seventies when I started this digging craze. Not sure if I would do the same again now. Still, if I ever see another Holbrooks sauce or Adolfo Woolfes schnapps........... _____________________________ ~Alan~ Arrgh, not another....... Holbrookes!!! (in reply to apd75) Post #: 3

RE: IDENTIFYING HELP. - 5/23/2004 10:26:04 AM    kumtow   Posts: 171 Joined: 5/13/2004 From: Australia. Tropical Queensland Status: offline Hi Gunsmoke47 (Kelley), Maugham developed and patented Carrara Water (aerated) which he happened to sell in a round bottom bottle. He never patented this bottle shape as Hiram Codd or Hamilton did with theirs. Often refered to as a Maugham, but sort of isn't really, if you know what I mean. _____________________________ ~Alan~ Arrgh, not another....... Holbrookes!!! (in reply to apd75) Post #: 4

RE: IDENTIFYING HELP. - 5/23/2004 1:02:54 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline Thanks for the info Alan. I would hate to steer someone wrong. I called it a Hamilton once and was informed it was a Maugham. Think I'll just call it a round bottom from now on... I don't believe there is any dispute there! Happy Diggin, Kelley (in reply to apd75) Post #: 5

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