Strange Color/ Milnes & Son Torpedo Soda

[ND_IXL]

I recently purchased this very interesting bottle for $150. The bottle reads Milnes & Son Bradford Undercliffe and on the other side has a picture of a boy on a donkey with trade written above and mark written below the picture. The bottle has a base color of a greenish aqua and is marbled with brick red and white. After a very close examination, I'm convinced that the coloration is beneath the surface of the glass. Any insight into the coloration and value/rarity would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ND_IXL]

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[ND_IXL]

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[MuddyMO]

Looks like it absorbed the colored minerals from beeing buried, resulting in sick glass. My guess.

 

[sandchip]

Can't be of much help, but it is a beautiful soda. To me, and it's hard to say from a picture, but it looks like the colors are in the glass, almost a jade-like appearance.

 

[RED Matthews]

Well I have been working on a blog for sodas - and I now have five of them similar to this one, except this one seems to have a flattened oval to it with the embossing on th edge. I like it and have to say thank you for posting about it. I am too tight to pay that much for one, but I appreciate seeing this coverage. I am only interested in hand made - mouth blown glass. And this is a neat example. Was it empontiled I would like to know that. Thank you. RED Matthews <bottlemysteries@yahoo.com>

 

[CanadianBottles]

Looks like it absorbed the colored minerals from beeing buried, resulting in sick glass. My guess.

Doesn't look like that to me, too shiny. I've never heard of minerals actually getting inside the glass, just coating the outside so that polishing would get rid of them. This one looks like it's either not dug or polished, so sickness wouldn't really make sense. I'm thinking it's a very funny batch of glass they used. Doesn't look particularly intentional.

 

[ND_IXL]

Thanks for your insight guys. The thing that is really stumping me is the marbling of red and white throughout the glass. Does anybody have an idea of what could cause this type of coloring?

 

[ND_IXL]

I agree that the coloration is indeed within the glass. Curious, would this type of coloring add value to the botlle? Thanks

 

[sandchip]

It sure helped the cobalt fish.