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They provide a fascinating insight into English eating, drinking and personal habits. 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.  Their function was to identify the contents of a bottle or decanter, which might alternatively contain spirits, sauces, toilet waters or cordials.\r\n\r\nThese 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 in metalware generally.\r\n\r\nHester Bateman was a successful female silversmith.  She learnt her trade from her husband and set up in her own right on his death in 1760.  It is likely that she managed the workshop rather than made the silver herself.  The firm produced cheaper, thin gauge domestic tablewares using a limited range of ornament for largely middle class customers.  Members of her family, such as her daughter-in-law Ann and her son Peter, joined the business and continued it after her retirement in 1790. Insurance documents for 1802 show that the firm, with its own steam operated flatting mill, was one of the most technologically advanced in London. 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