Features
Early Tiger branding and workmanship: the smaller vacuum flask keeps Tiger's early, boldly drawn round red tiger label. The fine stamp on the base (Made in Japan) recalls the era when Japanese manufacturing reached the world. The metal cap fits the body closely, showing the high precision of Shōwa industry.
A rare dark green tiger-stripe finish: the larger flask is sprayed with an unusual yellow tiger-stripe pattern over a dark green ground. This wild-looking finish, textured to the touch, is a very rare style among early vacuum flasks; under light it shows rich depth and is strongly distinctive.
Original cork stoppers and glass liners: both flasks keep the cork sealing system and mirrored glass liner particular to early vacuum flasks. This mechanical way of sealing is a witness to its period and gives the objects a plain, archaic beauty.
A sense of inheritance from its own wooden tomobako: the pair comes with a specially made wooden tomobako. In Japanese storage culture only valued objects are given a box of their own; this adds to the collecting value and raises these two everyday vessels to the standing of artworks.