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Category
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Ethereal Match or Philosophic Taper

1790

Flintlock pistol lighter

1701-1800

Fire-steel (length 4 1/2 ins)

Fire Steel

One of a series of thirty-one fire-steels

Bundle of Sulphur-matches

Tinder-box (length 9 1/4 ins) of wood; shallow

Tinder-box (length 13 1/2 ins) of wood

Wooden tinder box, Norway

Tinder-pouch of bright red leather

before 1937

Tinder-tube (length 2 3/4 ins)

Box, depicting Benjamin Disraeli

1871-1881

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

Early Chemical Match Box (c.1810) by S. JONES' PATENT LIGHTHOUSE NO 201 STRAND

1810

Promethean matches in original tin

Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.

1861-1979

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

Flint

Roughly-worked gun-flint

Flint, finely worked round edge

Flint (a small rough lump of chert; length 1 in)

A series of thirteen Gun- and Pistol-flints

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

Crocodile-tooth Tinder-tube (length 3 ins)

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of fourteen modern pocket tinder-tubes

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of fourteen modern pocket tinder-tubes

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of fourteen modern pocket tinder-tubes

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of fourteen modern pocket tinder-tubes

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

Tinder Box of Iron

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels