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We have before us an ordinary shaped claret or light wine 

 bottle, with the following labels : — 



CHATEAU YQUEM 



H AUT SAUTERN ES 



GRAND CRU. 



This we had recently from a wine merchant, so that stamped 

 bottles are not yet gone out of fashion. 



These objects are of interest as connecting the past with the 

 present, and if as Mr. Way supposed they were the prototypes 

 of decanters, they show that while they were supposed to occupy 

 the place on the table for which the decanter is used, they were 

 made in a measure more ornamental in shape, and in their 

 heraldic and other insignia than the stamped bottles of more 

 modern times. 



