Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 1/2 in) of bright silver; no decoration
- Made:
- Bow
Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 1/2 in) of bright silver; no decoration, except a Japanese landscape on top, engraved.[Nos 1140-1160 'all belong to an exceedingly well-marked form of the tinder-pistol which is confined entirely to Japan. Externally, most of them bear no resemblance ... to a pistol, ... the mechanism being enclosed in a locket-like box... The locket-case is always of metal ... Inside the box is the pistol action'.]
Details
- Category:
- Firemaking
- Object Number:
- 1937-682/1153
- type:
- tinder-box
- credit:
- Wilkinson Sword Ltd.