This collection features four distinct late 19th to early 20th-century glass bottles, highlighting the evolution of Victorian-era pharmaceutical and beverage packaging. The set includes two Codd-neck style bottles (marked "Belfast" and "Carter’s Royal"), which famously used an internal glass marble as a pressure-seal for carbonated drinks, a Hamilton (torpedo) bottle featuring a leaping buck embossed logo from Johannesburg, and a rectangular "flat-back" medicinal bottle, likely used for cod liver oil or apothecary tonics. The torpedo shape was specifically designed to ensure the bottle remained on its side, keeping the cork moist to prevent it from shrinking and losing carbonation. Overall, the bottles are in fair to good vintage condition, exhibiting authentic "ground-find" characteristics such as heavy internal mineral hazing, surface oxidation, and minor structural deformities in the glass, though the embossed lettering remains largely legible and intact.
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