In Australia, the bottles are more commonly known as "Round Enders" and often referred to (incorrectly) Maugham's Patent. In most cases, they would have contained soda water. Most of ours are from South Australia, where at least 40 manufacturers used them
Tandy
In Australia, these bottles range from common to very, very rare. Common names include "round - ender" and "Maugham". They are often described as Maugham patents, but this is incorrect - they are an unknown patent.
All round enders have the blob top closure in Australia. They are all from the...
[8D] I don't really know anything about the history of this bottle, but my guess is that it is a beer.
For more ingformation, I suggest that you contact the member known as Grimdigger, or Shirky62, or deepee42. They are British members, and should be able to help.
Tandy
In answer to bottlenutboy's comment in regard to Australian Codds or "Marble Bottles", each state of Australia produced its own brands of bottles in up to ten different Codd patent types.
At a very rough guess, I would have to say that there are quite possibly over 10,000 different varietis...
Hi Chelle_58, I agree with what jamus said in regard to the bottles, they are in all probability medicine type bottles. Does the seam go all the way to the top or not?
Tandy.
G'day Murray, that's a nice Codd bottle you have there! Sometimes known as "marble" or "Allie" bottles, they date from around the mid 1870's to the late 1880's or even into the 1900's.
Yours is actually correctly known as an Empress patent, 1880 - 1883.
You mentioned the following...
Hi JSN, we get similar ones to the one in your photo over here in Australia, but usually of a lesser volume. They contained spirits or wines, and can be found in most Australian states.
Cheers,
Tandy
Hi Ron,
one of them I bought at an Antique Dealer's many years ago, the others either were my late Mother's or Father's, and were inherited. I have always admired them.
Tandy
Having just arranged, in part the large bookshelf that you can see part of, I decided that other forum members would be interested in my collection of pewter mugs, a teapot and EPNS trophy mugs.
The middle one of the larger mugs on the left hand side reads "Harry Vivian, SM. It is Victorian...
Many of you will know me as a fervent digger of an old quarry area at a place called Brownhill Creek. Its close, and it has some goodies to surrender, but this is not the subject of this post, it only serves to remind you of who I am - Tandy!
I know that I have spoken about, discussed or...
Jim,
There are some really nice poisons on your website, and I think that more of us Aussies would be interested in seeing them, as they are of a design that we do not see.
See http://aabc.9.forumer.com/index.php?act=idx which is our Australian Antique Bottle Forum.
Once again, a...
BigJock, you can add China to your list I think. It is still possible to get these codds at our local "China town" here in Adelaide, South Australia. I would think that you could probably get them in the U. S. of A. also.
Cheers from Oz,
Tandy