Albert (Mim)
Tuckwell's collection
The outer bottles once belonged to Thomas Dench Bastard and John Kitely Bastard who traded as aerated water makers from premises in Susan St, Hindmarsh, operating in the style of Bastard Brothers 1900 to 1919.
The centre bulge neck codd bottle once belonged to W.S. Bailey of Gilbert St, Adelaide. 1866 to 1918. Bottle dated 1910s.
Hiram Codd, born 1838 at Bury, St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England, is attributed with the first successful (ball stoppered) patent bottle. Hiram submitted the patent for registration on September 3, 1872.
After refinements, the bottle was released to the market by November of 1872. The bottle grew in popularity over succeeding years and were exported from England to many countries.
J.O. Ladd, a ginger beer and aerated water manufacturer of Adelaide, South Australia, introduced his use of the 'Codd's Pantent' bottle in May 1879, and would have been the first in this state to use them. Around 1990, one of these early bottle was recovered in a bottle dig.
The bottle was designed with a horizontal pinch to the neck, this was to prevent the glass marble from falling to the bottom of the bottle whilst indentations prevented the stopper from lodging in the sealed position during the act of pouring the contents.
This popular style of bottle was in service to some degree right up to around the late 1930s.
Crown seal bottle.
The crown seal soft drink bottle, however, was seen as an alternative to the codd bottle from c1910 onwards.