Antique French Sterling Silver & Green Cut Glass Flask

Antique French sterling silver and cut glass liquor flask. The tapered glass bottle is a gorgeous green color decorated with wheel cut spiral fluting and engraved scrolling foliage. Mounted with a sterling silver lid, collar and removable tumbler or drinking cup attached to the base. Retains a glass stopper. Hallmarked with the French Minerve 1st standard mark used from 1838 to 1919, which depicts the goddess Minerva with a number 1 beside her to denote a silver content of 950/1000 (of 95% pure silver and a higher finesse than .925 sterling). Bearing maker's marks for Parisian silversmiths Bourgeois veuve & Prunin active from 1896 to 1913 at 17 rue du Pont-aux-Choux in Paris. Flask measures 5 7/8" length. In overall good antique condition with general wear commensurate from use and handling, some surface marks to the silver mounts. Sometimes mistaken for a perfume bottle, these bottles were originally serviceable as portable flasks intended for liquor or herbal restoratives (Thou