A pocket sized sterling silver drinking flask with removable drinking cup. This is a stunning piece, very simple in design, but very high in quality. This flask is very unusual due to the fact that once the lid is removed it reveals two separated drinking compartments. Both are secured with screw down bayonet style locking lids with cork liners to prevent any leakage. This would allow for the potential to add two of your favourite tipple to be stored, if struggling with the crippling anxiety of choice!
The flask has a soft oval curved shape to it which was designed to make it comfortable in a pocket, following the contour of the body. The thick gauge flask splits in two for a removable drinking cup that slides off the body. This cup also will allow for the potential to mix what ever is added into the body of the flask! The options are endless
The entire body of the flask has a handsome engine turned knurled, barley style pattern through each element of the piece, which adds an aesthetic nature to the flask, but also also for more purchase on the body when wet during use. A complicated technique used to engrave the solid, plain body of the flask. It is unusual for the engine turning ro be on all sides of the flask, making this a more expensive piece from a production point of view.
The flask is in superb condition throughout. Made in Birmingham, England, by one of the leading English Silversmith's of the 19th & 20th Century; William Base & Sons. in 1928 putting production slap bang in the middle of the Jazz Age! If the flask could talk, the stories would be fascinating! William Base & Sons are renowned for some of the flask making, having made a number of high end and special examples. This being no exception