3 strips of later fusees
- Made:
- 1840-1880
3 strips of later fusees, nitre soaked cardboard with phosphorus blobs on the ends, English, 1840-1889, later type of fusee since the phosphorus has not been applied by equilateral dipping of the strip but by the application of a single blob of phosphorus covering nothing like the entire surface at the end of the match, a feature of the older fusees
Details
- Category:
- Smoking
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656878
- Materials:
- cardboard, nitre and phosphorus
- type:
- matches
