Kiwigal Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Help identify these 4 ...all have a seam around the marble & a flat part which looks very similar to the codd marble or are these replicas? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Those are industrial marbles. Probably used for water purification or something like that🔥 RAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwigal Posted February 7 Author Report Share Posted February 7 27 minutes ago, Fire1981 said: Those are industrial marbles. Probably used for water purification or something like that🔥 RAR OK thanks so they are not collectable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Looks like bullet mold marbles to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted February 7 Report Share Posted February 7 Not high dollar but to fun add to your collection. I do agree with these are Bullet Molds. 🔥 RAR 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 On 2/6/2024 at 9:08 PM, I'llhavethat1 said: Looks like bullet mold marbles to me. X2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-rett66 Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 Kiwigal, I have a couple of the Codd bottles. I’ll have to dig them out and look at them. I do remember watching a vintage video on how they were made. The first pic is supposed to be a marble pulled from a bottle. The second is a snap shot from the video that shows molding the marbles. Looks like they made several at a time. As they cooled they would break them off. The third is just extra. I’m still trying to find one of these for my collection. It’s called a “Codd’s Wallop” it’s for removing the marble from the gasket. It went on top of the bottle then stuck with the palm of you had. This made a POP. That’s how we got the word “Soda Pop”. I’m not making that up 😉When I find my bottles I’ll report back as to what mine look like. One thing to add, the way these marbles were made in the video was labor intensive and only made a few at a time. I imagine someone must have come up with the idea of buying machine made marbles because of ease and cost. I know this is just speculation but if this is true the ones with the seams and button marks could be from early bottles 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-rett66 Posted February 9 Report Share Posted February 9 Hey Kiwigal, Good news. I found my Codd neck bottle. I finally got a good picture of it and it is identical to yours. I hope you can see it in the photo. It definitely has the button mark and the mold marks. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwigal Posted February 10 Author Report Share Posted February 10 10 hours ago, B-rett66 said: Hey Kiwigal, Good news. I found my Codd neck bottle. I finally got a good picture of it and it is identical to yours. I hope you can see it in the photo. It definitely has the button mark and the mold marks. Thanks for that...so does that mean mine are codd as tge ones I have are like yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-rett66 Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 Well, I’d say so. Proofs in the bottle. They look very similar. I’d like to hear what the others say also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwigal Posted February 10 Author Report Share Posted February 10 7 hours ago, B-rett66 said: Well, I’d say so. Proofs in the bottle. They look very similar. I’d like to hear what the others say also. That's so exciting ...to think I've got some old marbles - 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 19 minutes ago, Kiwigal said: That's so exciting ...to think I've got some old marbles - 😊 Codd Bottles are still produced in Japan & India, I'm not sure how to tell if you have old Codd marbles or newer Perhaps a bit more investigation ?? LINK :: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-rett66 Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 I have done more research on the Codd Marble. The other posts are correct in they are molded marbles. There is some info here on the Marble Connection way back in the archives on this subject. Hiram Codd was the inventor of this ingenious bottle and sealing system. He did have a patent on it but later he let other companies make his design bottle but they had to buy the marbles, gaskets and the tooling to make the bottle seal. What a guy. Some of the of the other interesting info I came across was the bottles were returnable. If you could round up 100 bottles and take them in to a general store, they would give you one penny for them. WOW! Couldn’t really get rich. Also Children in those days would break the bottles to get the marble. Guys who look for bottles in old dump sites find evidence of this in the number of broken Codd bottles they find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-rett66 Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 I thought this would be a good article to add. https://kimscurios.com/2020/08/06/curious-objects-the-globe-stopper-or-codd-bottle/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwigal Posted February 11 Author Report Share Posted February 11 3 hours ago, B-rett66 said: I have done more research on the Codd Marble. The other posts are correct in they are molded marbles. There is some info here on the Marble Connection way back in the archives on this subject. Hiram Codd was the inventor of this ingenious bottle and sealing system. He did have a patent on it but later he let other companies make his design bottle but they had to buy the marbles, gaskets and the tooling to make the bottle seal. What a guy. Some of the of the other interesting info I came across was the bottles were returnable. If you could round up 100 bottles and take them in to a general store, they would give you one penny for them. WOW! Couldn’t really get rich. Also Children in those days would break the bottles to get the marble. Guys who look for bottles in old dump sites find evidence of this in the number of broken Codd bottles they find Wow interesting ...thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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