Pewter Hip Flasks
Although much modern pewter is decorative rather than functional, hip flasks remain an exception. As they are designed to contain alcoholic drinks, pewter as a good conductor with a low melting point remains one of the best available alloys. Another advantage stems from the inert nature of pewter which ensures that it does not react with or change the taste of drinks, even when they are stored for many hours in the hip flask.
No self respecting Victorian gentlemen would be seen dead without a silver or pewter hip flask and they still remain popular with country sports followers, with sporting spectators in general – particularly rugby and golf fans – and with those who consider themselves ‘a cut above’. Pewter hip flasks being produced today often become style icons in their own right such as the Eric Magnussen flask which won a number of international design awards. Others feature modern day icons such as Homer Simpson. The most popular however feature country pursuits or sporting motifs or hark back to bygone days using retrospective designs from Victorian or even Celtic times.’
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