An unusual and interesting Victorian sterling silver spirit or hip flask, London 1895 by Alexander Clark

Of rounded oval form with a bayonet cap. Engraved all over with an extensive list of forty two destinations in South America, Japan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Egypt, China, British Malaya (Malaysia), France, and America, with the date 1899:

Mexico

San Francisco

El Monte

Honolulu

Yokohama

Tokyo

Nikko

Shizuoka

Nagoya

Kyoto

Nara

Osaka

Kobe

Hiogo (sic Hyōgo)

Nagasaki

Shanghai

Hong – Kong

Canton

Macao

Singapore

Johore

Penang

Colombo

Kandy

Djibouti

Suez

Ismailia

El Cairo

Port Said

Marsella

Paris

Cherbourg

New York

(around the side)

Kamakura

Enoshima

Miyanoshita

Kodzu

Osawara (sic Odawara)

Kuno Zan

Shimonoseki

Moji

Paradeniya

Fully and part-marked, stamped 4 underneath.

Length – 14.2 cm / 5.6 inches

Weight – 125 grams / 4.02 ozt