Armadillo-tail Tinder-tube (length 3 ins)

PART OF:
Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.
Made:
Bow and Bow and
Armadillo-tail Tinder-tube (length 3 ins)

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Armadillo-tail Tinder-tube (length 3 ins)
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Armadillo-tail Tinder-tube (length 3 ins), with silver mountings, slightly engraved; a diminutive poodle-dog, in silver, surmounts the tip of the armadillo-tail; steel thick, heavy, oval in outline, pierced in centre, and perhaps also made from part of an old file. [NB: One of several specimens (nos. 870-876)... South American, being made from ... a species of Armadillo which is common in the Andean Region of Chile and Argentina, where the animal forms a regular article of diet ... [All bear] a close resemblance ... differing only in the elaborateness of their silver mountings ...]

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Category:
Firemaking
Object Number:
1937-682/875
type:
tube
credit:
Wilkinson Sword Ltd.