Label Conscious: Decanter labels, which had their heyday almost 200 years ago, are perfect for beginning collectors of wine antiques

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Issue: August 31, 1995

August 31, 1995 Label Conscious Decanter labels, which had their heyday almost 200 years ago, are perfect for beginning collectors of wine antiques By Ted Loos What could have possibly caused 80-year-old Josephine Bethel to leave her home in Ottawa, get on a bus for two days and endure the infamous hassles of New York? An auction of antique decanter labels.

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