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    Best looking flasks??

    If I had my choice I'd have a quart sized one but that's not practical - What are some of the nicest best flasks you guys have seen?? big is good too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Miles View Post
    If I had my choice I'd have a quart sized one but that's not practical - What are some of the nicest best flasks you guys have seen?? big is good too
    This is "my" flask that I carry:

    http://www.filson.com/sm-flask--pi-2092350.html

    Cheers,

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    Nicest ones I ever saw?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Miles View Post
    If I had my choice I'd have a quart sized one but that's not practical - What are some of the nicest best flasks you guys have seen?? big is good too
    Big? Jeaasus but that's an easy one. Bridgette Mulcahy at the Ship-Fitters Ball down in Wexford in 1988. They were huge-- like dinner plates they were. All of the lads were bowled over when she took 'em out and offered to pass 'em around. Round and full-- absolutely glorious they were. And smooth as smooth could be, the result of decades of them being passed back and forth between friends on a chilly winter's night. And did I say full? I did not! But let me tell you mother's milk could never have been sweeter. No never.

    In the end I think she ended up selling them, at least I saw a pair of Irish Georgian silver cantle flasks very much like them on Antiques Road Show a few years later. I think the man who was the expert said they were priceless...

    Actually my favorite flask is emblazoned with the arms of George Way of Plean, and I won it off him in a bet!

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    this would be cool but my sporran's not that big

    http://im.edirectory.co.uk/p/1306/i/growlercrop.jpg

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    Actually my favorite flask is emblazoned with the arms of George Way of Plean, and I won it off him in a bet!


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    Arrow I'm all ears...

    Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
    Actually my favorite flask is emblazoned with the arms of George Way of Plean, and I won it off him in a bet!
    That sounds like there's an interesting story there... Do tell! :-D

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    I just got this one for Father's Day. Haven't even tried it out, yet.

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    this could be a useful thread, I'm in the market for a flask and just started shopping around this morning. I do like that Filson one...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joseph McLaren View Post
    this could be a useful thread, I'm in the market for a flask and just started shopping around this morning. I do like that Filson one...
    I like the Filson one because it is more of a "country gent" type flask, and not a "Scottish" one like you see offered by many vendors -- not that I have a problem with those flasks, I just like this one a wee bit better.

    It "goes" very well with my Barbour Wax Jacket and cord trousers!

    T.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    I like the Filson one because it is more of a "country gent" type flask, and not a "Scottish" one like you see offered by many vendors -- not that I have a problem with those flasks, I just like this one a wee bit better.

    It "goes" very well with my Barbour Wax Jacket and cord trousers!

    T.
    I agree, I'm not fond of much of the stuff that gets lazily plastered with 'celtic' knotwork. As I also spend most of my time in a Barbour and 'old man' cord trousers, maybe this is the one for me! Thanks Cajunscot.

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