Fire-steel (length 3 ins)
Fire-steel (length 3 ins), combined with cork-screw, screw for withdrawing charge from gun, and pipe-prick (latter lost); designs (including a hart lodged beneath a tree) inlaid in bronze gilt on sides of steel. [NB: one of thirty-three specimens (nos. 424-456), all Spanish, but combined with some other article or articles of frequent personal use (generally with ember-tongs, but often with knife-blade, cork-screw, pipe-prick, screw-driver, hammer, or other). Many possess considerable artistic merit]
Details
- Category:
- Firemaking
- Object Number:
- 1937-682/449
- type:
- firesteels
- credit:
- Wilkinson Sword Ltd.