Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins); brass mounts on flap

Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins); brass mounts on flap

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Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins); brass mounts on flap
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Chuckmuck (length 2 7/8 ins); brass mounts on flap, including twelve bosses, a joss-house or shrine, sun, half-moon, and ingenious fastening with sliding bolt (similar to that on no. 964); a largely-illegible inscription in Chinese on back of steel, seems to refer to purity or ice.

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Category:
Firemaking
Object Number:
1937-682/974
type:
chuckmuck
credit:
Wilkinson Sword Ltd.