Asprey, a silver mounted dressing set in a natural pigskin case by Asprey & Co. Ltd, London 1

Asprey, a silver mounted dressing set in a natural pigskin case by Asprey & Co. Ltd, London 1939-40, the ten mounted fittings engine turned, comprising: a hair brush, a comb, a hand mirror, a clothes brush, three glass bottles and three jars all fitted to one side of the case, the other for night clothes, the case and outer canvas cover initialled ‘C.A’, the case 34cm (13 1/2in) wide; sold with the original receipt from Asprey & Co. to Sir Arthur Grant dated 14th November 1942. Major Sir Arthur Lindsay Grant of Monymusk and Cullen, 11th Bt. (1911-1944) was the son of Colonel Sir Arthur Grant and Evelyn Alice Lindsay Wood and was in the Grenadier Guards. He married Priscilla Jean Fortescue Thomson, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, daughter of Brigadier Alan Fortescue Thomson on 14th May 1934. He was killed in action on 18th July 1944 in Normandy (mentioned in despatches posthumously). Christian Mona Grant (born 1920) was Arthur’s sister and married, firstly, Captain Michael Fife William Angas, son of Major L. Angas, on 14th November 1942. They were divorced in 1951 and she later remarried twice.