Those bottles with the big glass marble stopper in the neck were common in the first half of the 20th C, and I'm failry sure they were still being made in the 50s. As marble-playing kids, we used to call big plain ones "bottlewashers": only years later did I find you got them by smashing the bottle and throwing the bits away. (This was called "making your own amusemements". My favourite though was tying a tin can to a cat's tails. These kids today, they've got no idea how to have fun...!)

Steve