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These bottles were of a dark-green or black glass, very thick 

 and heavy, all alike in size, and three of them being quarts and 

 two of them pints. 



When found they were arranged in a row on their sides, the 

 mouth of one bottle being placed in the hollow base of the other. 

 These bottles were all alike in shape, which was globular, and 

 were remarkable for being impressed with a crest raised on the 

 side of each bottle in the form of a label. The crest was that 

 of a falcon on a cap of maintenance, surmounted by a baron's 

 coronet, of which the following is a figure of the actual size : 



FIG. 2. STAMP FROM BOTTLE (ACTUAL SIZE). 



All the impressions were of the same kind and size both on 

 the large and small bottles, but they had evidently been made 

 with two different stamps. Now as these bottles appeared to us 

 to present a most interesting archaic aspect, and from their 

 being stamped in the manner described, with which, until then, 

 we were not acquainted, we sent both a quart and a pint bottle 

 to the late Albert Way, Esq., and we quote the following re- 

 marks from one of his most interesting letters : 



" The glass flasks are curious. I have seen a few such 

 objects marked with some heraldic insignia and initials. 

 Whether they contained sack or Ehenish I cannot pretend to 

 say, or when the fashion came in of placing some personal 

 decorations on such wine bottles tlie prototypes oj 



