A LATE VICTORIAN GEM SET SILVER-GILT HIP FLASK BY CHARLES AND GEORGE ASPREY, LONDON, 1895 of rounded rectangular form, with a pull-off drinking cup and a clear glass body and the cover with a turquoise and diamond monogram, together with an Edwardian silver-gilt hip flask by William Hornby, London 1902, of rounded rectangular form, with a pull-off drinking cup and a leather bound clear glass body, engraved with the Rothschild (2) approx. total weighable 4.2oz. Provenance Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) Halton House, Buckinghamshire Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) The Trustees of Exbury House

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