Bottle Tickets And Decanter Labels

Until the eighteenth century, most wine and spirits were sold in and served from glass bottles or stoneware jars. The name of the liquor was part of the container’s design or was written on a parchment label. After glass decanters came into style in the early 1700s, a label was necessary to identify what was in the bottle. Silver “bottle tickets” were first made in the 1720s.