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Ronson lighter

Braided cigar lights in labelled box

1890

Mark III comet ignition device for gas burners

Two braided cigar lights

Small metal container for wax vestas

Windproof

circa 1968

Brass oil-lamp-shaded candle handlamp containing ten indexing diminutive self-igniting candles

Pocket candle holder with matches, mid 19th century

Dobereiner's Lamp (c.1840-60)

1840-1860

"DLI" flintless

Clarke's patent electric gas lighter

1880

Flint hydraulic unit for butane table lighter, 1966

Rectangular tinder box

Box of Bryant and May's strike-anywhere "Harlequin Matches"

Box of Bryant & May's braided cigar lights

Petrol lighter "Avant X"

Fumalux FL400 electric pocket lighter

Bryant and May "Clipper" refillable lighter

Promethean matches in original tin

Gas lighter

"Poppell" refillable gas lighter

"Monopol" table lighter

Amorce cap lighter

Lighter, butane, spark ignition, "Molelectric", sectioned

1969

Jappaned circular tinder box

Tinder Box of Iron

One of Two "Lovett" Tinder-boxes (length 3 1/4 ins) of brass

A Lighter (length 2 3/4 ins) of brass

Tinder-box (length 2 1/2 ins); on lid

Tinder-box (length 2 1/2 ins); on lid

A Lighter (length 3 1/4 ins) made from

A Lighter (length 2 1/2 ins) made from a nickelled rifle-cartridge

Lighter, one of eight

One of three gas-lighters

One of Two Lighters (length 2 1/8 ins) of identical make; both of iron

A Lighter (length 2 1/4 ins) very similar to foregoing (no. 1381)

A Lighter (length 2 1/2 ins) of exactly similar type to above

Metal Pocket Lighter, known as "Le Briquet Dangy"

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

1810

Match holder for wax vestas

Thin iron matchbox containing 100 small wax vestas

1880

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

A series of thirteen Gun- and Pistol-flints

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

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels