Iron mortar and pestle

PART OF:
Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.
Made:
Bow
Iron mortar and pestle

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Mortar (5 x 4 3/4 ins) of iron (weight 6 lbs 10 1/2 ozs); cast by a bell-founder, but bears no founder's name; with iron pestle (weight 2 lbs 10 1/2 ozs); date probably about 1800.

Details

Category:
Firemaking
Object Number:
1937-682/1444B
Measurements:
overall Pestle: 220 mm 40 mm, 1.2 kg
overall Mortar: 130 mm 150 mm, 3.2 kg
type:
mortar and pestle
credit:
Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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[One of ] A Series of thirty-one Fire-steels (lengths of most 3 to 4 ins); all believed to be Scottish; similar in general to English steels, but on the whole more ornate (a result, no doubt, of former intercourse with France), the tang or tangs at back being more often and more ornamentally twisted or coiled; one type, having curious thumb-piece at top, represented by five examples (nos. 308-312) and unknown in England, was probably introduced from France or Flanders, where it occurs; another type, believed to be exclusively Scottish, and represented by two examples (nos. 313-314), is roughly rectangular, with a striking face on each edge, a pipe-pricker hinged on to one end, folding down into a groove on one side. Scotland.

One of a series of thirty-one fire-steels