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524. LEIGH & CO SALFORD PREMIER
525. LEIGH & CO CONNORS PATENT STOPPER CODD BOTTLE. 9.1ins
tall. Good amber glass 10oz standard codd but with the all important so called pear shaped marble - standard spherical marble with pointed tip. Leigh & Co/ Salford vertically one side, to rear patent words
plus Redfearns maker. As
dug - a little
internal residue, easy to clean?
A significant offering. Ex
Garth Morrison Collection.
9.5/10.
NR.
£800-
1,000+
526. LEIGH & CO SALFORD
PATENT CODD BOTTLE. 7.4ins tall. Mid amber 6oz
SYKES MACVAY PATENT CODD BOTTLE. 8.9ins tall. Bright
Premier patent with 4 distinct circular
light golden amber 10oz Sykes MacVay patent. Full sheen, very well embossed, no damages - lead insert superb too.
marble retaining neck indents. Company
Ex Garth Morrison Collection. I would rate this simply the best of the handful of all the small number ever seen? 9.5/10. NR. £700-800+
name/ town vertically embossed one side,
CODDS PATENT/ PREMIER/ SOLE MAKER/ CODD
& RYLANDS/ BARNSLEY near
base to rear. Full sheen, minor marks but no damages. Ex Garth Morrison Collection. 9/10. few NR. £700- 800+
527. GLOBE CODD & BULLET STOPPER BOTTLES. Tallest 9ins, both 10oz. Light amber Leigh & Co bullet (a
few marks), plus
absolutely stunning light brown (brown
marble) Groves & Whitnall codd - very boldly embossed. Stunning! 9/10 &
9.5/10. Ex Garth Morrison Collection.
NR. (2) £40-60+
The rather wonderfully named William Peer Grimble Groves (1817-1885), his son William Grimble Groves (1847-1927), and his son’s friend, Arthur William Whitnall (1847-1890) founded Groves & Whitnall in 1868 when they purchased the Regent Road Brewery, Salford, from Messrs Bathe and Newbold. William Peer was born in London, son of vinegar maker and spirit merchant William Grimble (1796-1847). He moved to Liverpool about 1845 before briefly moving to Australia between 1852 and 1854 where, running a freighting business to the goldfields, he likely handled quite a few Diamond Registry items before moving back to Salford.
The firm are best known now amongst collectors for their various amber mineral water and pop bottles but that was not the case originally.
William Peer Grimble Groves established a partnership with Sir Felix Booth (1780-1850) to make vinegar at Blantyre Street, using spirits left after Booth’s London gin manufacture. The mineral water side of the business stems from William junior’s marriage in 1875 to Eliza Ann Leigh (1852- 1918). Her brother, Charles Henry Leigh (1855-1929) ran The Globe Works, a mineral water and bottling plant subsidiary to the brewery set up in 1885. Leigh & Co became wholly owned by Groves & Whitnall by 1899. From that date Leigh & Co wording was dropped. Three trade marks include the Globe used on a host of amber bottles, the colour almost amounting to a Manchester trade mark. A later Hand & Arrow codd (very rare in amber) and Red Rose were others.