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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ritzyvintage, post: 3542564, member: 18191&quot;]It may be worth mentioning on this thread, that many hand-produced vintage decanters and perfume/scent bottles will often have etched/scribed numbers on the underside of the stopper. This number will correspond to with the same number etched into the inside-neck of the bottle, or under its base.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reasons for these numbers are twofold: Stoppers were produced by a different person (known as the &quot;<i>Stopperer</i>&quot;) after the bottle was made, and even with matched-pairs of bottles their stoppers will not be interchangeable. There will be slight variations between them. Numbers were therefore applied so that each stopper fitted the correct bottle before they were retailed. It is also why it is so difficult to locate a good fitting stopper to replace a lost one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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