He carefully scraped away the soil to reveal an old bottle with a marble in the neck. The farmer gave it to Jamys , and since then Jamys has started collecting old glass bottles. The writing on ...

Carbonated drinks needed bottles strong enough to stand the build up of pressure and to keep the 'fizz' inside. In 1872 Hiram Codd introduced a design featuring a glass marble to keep it airtight.

‘Teacher's Gotta Lotta Bottle’ screamed the headline in The Sun in 1987 when it told how a young teacher had ditched his career for a rather less secure job dealing in old bottles and pot ...

which would bottle either water, wine or lemonade to sell in their locality,” says the 28-year-old. A codd bottle of the 1920s. “In Żejtun alone, there used to be about six or seven such ...