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This object consists of 2 parts, some of which may be located elsewhere.

Bottle Ticket

1799-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bottle tickets identified the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. Contemporary gazettes begin to refer to ‘labels for bottles’ in the 1770s but it was not until the 1790s that they were established as wine or decanter labels.

These tickets also illustrate, in miniature, the skills of the silversmith over the last two hundred years. While the variety of styles and materials was enormous, silver bottle tickets tended to reflect fashionable designs and technical advances in metalware generally.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bottle Ticket
  • Chain
Materials and techniques
Silver, pierced and stamped
Brief description
Silver, London hallmarks for 1799-1800, mark of E. Robinson and T. Phipps
Physical description
One of a set of three bottle tickets each pierced with the letters B,R, and S respectively, this example with the letter B. Silver, rectangular with pierced Roman capitals and a double reeded edge; chains attached.
Dimensions
  • Height: 1in
  • Length: 0.875in
Marks and inscriptions
  • TP over ER for Phipps and Robinson
  • London hallmarks for 1799-1800
  • B
Credit line
P. J. Cropper Bequest
Object history
Bequest - P. J. Cropper
per W J Sheldrick
Acquisition RF: 44 / 177
Summary
Bottle tickets identified the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials. Contemporary gazettes begin to refer to ‘labels for bottles’ in the 1770s but it was not until the 1790s that they were established as wine or decanter labels.

These tickets also illustrate, in miniature, the skills of the silversmith over the last two hundred years. While the variety of styles and materials was enormous, silver bottle tickets tended to reflect fashionable designs and technical advances in metalware generally.
Collection
Accession number
M.1222-1944

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Record createdSeptember 10, 2004
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