flask, spirit, flask
Accession Number
NAM.2001-04-85-1
Description
Spirit flask, 1855-1897. Manufactured by James Dixon and Sons, Sheffield, England. Used by Lt Col (later Gen Sir) Frederick Francis Maude (1821-1897) VC, 3rd Bn 3rd (The East Kent) Regiment of Foot (The Buffs). Privately purchased. Carried in saddle holster, silver plated, semicircular in cross section with slightly concave straight side, at top is a screw top which is jammed. At bottom brass loop attached to slightly concave base. Associated with the Crimean War (1854-1856). From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.
Events
Sevastopol, Siege of, 1854-55 (Crimean War 1854-1856)
Associated collection
