Fire-steel with ornamental handhold, France
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Fire-steel (length 2 1/8 ins), with large ornamental hand-hold of cast bronze, in form of a beast(? a dragon); believed to be of the 12th century; formerly in the Lavedan Collection; figured in Gay's "Gloss. Archéol. du Moyen Age", p. 749. France.
