Various Strips (2 1/8 x 1 7/8 ins) of wooden Matches

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

Made:: Bow

Various Strips (2 1/8 x 1 7/8 ins) of wooden Matches, each divided by a saw-cleft; also two portions of a similar strip, and a fragment, consisting of four matches, from another somewhat-similar strip; Matches (1/8 x 1/10 in) all lightly sulphur-dipped, with very small chocolate-coloured heads; date probably about 1900. United States.

Details

Category:: Firemaking

Object Number:: 1937-682/2675

type:: matches

credit:: Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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Various Strips (2 1/8 x 1 7/8 ins) of wooden Matches

Object Number:: 1937-682/2675/1

type:: matches

Strip of wooden matches

One of various Strips (2 1/8 x 1 7/8 ins) of wooden Matches, lightly sulphur-dipped, with very small chocolate-coloured heads; date probably about 1900. United States.