Photos, mainly of my personal collection. For historical information about
Grey & Menzies Ltd click here. Specific
information on some of the different styles of bottles can be found by clicking
the hyperlinks - codds, internal threads, ginger beers, amber crown tops, green
crown tops, clear crown tops, syphons, crocks
When
I first started collecting Grey & Menzies bottles I was told that they were
regarded as the "the most common of all", a bit like the 4d stamp, so
many around its hardly worthwhile. I think the 4 bottles on the left illustrate
that there are some very unusual G&M bottles. As yet, I don't own any of
these, thats a pleasure yet to come.
Codds, internal threads, UK crown tops, coloreds, screw tops.
And
then there's the clays & the soda syphons!
I have just seen another clay GB. So far I have 6 different syphons, including a
beautiful pink one, (or in the
American terms Seltzers) but all with the same engraving - I'm told there are
variations here, and I know of 3 different crocks.
Someone told me recently
there are 36 different varieties of Codds alone.
The latest find in the Grey & Menzies collection are these tokens. I am
awaiting specific information to date these but semi reliable info says that the
left hand side is the earlier and is referred to as a 1d token. There is a bit
of contention whether the face illustrated is of John Grey or Richard Seddon.
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