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RD 160745
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Dark green glass cylindrical bottle (about 4 ¼ inches tall) with crown stopper and relief lettering to one side 'CROWN PERFUMERY COMPANY LONDON'. Embossed on the base with a‘debased’ diamond date mark logo (the typical lozenge outline shape with ‘III’ in a part circle at the apex, but with the ‘Rd’ erased from the centre and figures or digits removed from the angles, and ‘C.P.Co.’ inside it instead) and No. 160745. This RD should have been registered to CPC sometime in August 1888, but is not shown as a glass registration number in Thompson, Slack or http://www.great-glass.co.uk . Manufacturer not known
In an ornate sterling silver two part case (sleeve for the bottle and cover for the crown-stopper) hallmarked in Birmingham for Deakin and Francis, 1899-1900.
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