Flint

PART OF:: Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.

Made:: Bow

Flint (large roughly-broken lumps, length 2 - 2 1/2 ins

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Flint (large roughly-broken lumps, length 2 - 2 1/2 ins
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Flint (large roughly-broken lumps, length 2 - 2 1/2 ins, from the chalk of Kent) and steel (perhaps part of a sword-blade; length 3 7/8 ins); bought in 1922 at Shanghai (flint from the Medway is imported in large quantities, partly as ballast and partly for china-making, and some of it, broken into these large lumps, is sold for making fire). China.

Details

Category:: Firemaking

Object Number:: 1937-682/180

type:: flint

credit:: Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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