Fire-steel, kidney-shape

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

Made:: Bow

Fire-steel (2 1/4 x 1 1/4 ins) of kidney-shape (like no

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Fire-steel (2 1/4 x 1 1/4 ins) of kidney-shape (like no. 962); both sides ornamented handsomely (like the flap of a chuckmuck) with filigree and other pierced work in silver and set with many turquoises in patterns; suspension-ring (missing) at top; on front of steel, the sign for Wang; purchased on the Tibetan border of Nepal, but probably Chinese workmanship. China.

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Category:: Firemaking

Object Number:: 1937-682/510A

type:: firesteels

credit:: Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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