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In May 2010 Jamy's daddy was ploughing a field in Ballaugh on the Isle of Man, when he saw something shiny in the soil. He carefully scraped away the soil to reveal an old bottle with a marble in ...
“In the old days, every village used to have a couple of small businesses, mostly family-run, which would bottle either water, wine or lemonade to sell in their locality,” says the 28-year-old.
In 1872 Hiram Codd introduced a design featuring a glass marble to keep it airtight. The Codd-neck bottle, as it was called, enclosed a marble and a rubber washer/gasket in the neck.