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custom in former times to affix some sign of ownership to one's 

 bottles of sherry, sack, Ehenish, and perhaps other wines. 



Mr. Smith's notes show that this custom is still kept up in the 

 Temple, and it may be so in some of the city guilds. 



We have before us a modern claret bottle with two shields on 

 one label, side by side, each surmounted by a different coronet. 

 From these examples we have no doubt that the custom of 

 stamping bottle mettle itself was common, not only at home but 

 on the Continent ; and we therefore ask our readers to kindly 

 preserve such specimens when they meet with them, as it is by 

 such evidence that the history of the past can be fully illustrated. 



