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Here the letters SW have additional lettering that identifies the contents as a spirit, whiskey.\r\n\r\nContemporary 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.  \r\n  \r\nThis example is made of electroplated nickel silver. In this process the nickel base has been coated with a thin layer of silver deposited onto it by electrolysis. 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