TRAVELLING CASE comprising silver gilt perfume flask; five
boxes; clothes and hair brushes, mirror, comb and manicure
tools in a fitted crocodile skin case. London 1962
Six of these cases were ordered by Michael Behrens, Senior
Partner of the Ionian Bank, a merchant bank that stopped
trading in 1977. Behrens was a good customer of Benney.
The silver has a lightly textured 'hatch' pattern. The case
was designed to help ensure that a gentleman was well
groomed during a day trip to Paris. |