Making sure gentlemen and gentle-ladies were looked after
Asprey and Finnagans Drew and others made fitted cases for the smart and mobile, travel being the pastime of the wealthy in late 19th and early 20th century.
Often these were described as scent bottles when actually they were designed for serendipitous transport of spirits for making very dry martini or even a restorative brandy or port.
A quality leather transport case often in turn to be fitted into a travel case or box, often called a toilette box. So gentle folk (a gentlemen was a man who didn't have to work directly for a living) could have a quiet tipple when required always good for any unforeseen problems, when traveling.
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