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Fire-piston contained in a walking stick

Tinder Box of Pewter

Fire-drill and hearth

Hearth, in form of an Australian native Shield of thick soft wood, curved in front, with sunken hand-hold at back; surface covered all over, both back and front, with red ochre

Tinder Box of Iron

Tinder Box of Brass

Boys' fire stick

Tinder Box of Iron

Tinder Box of Brass

Tinder Box of Iron, flat oval box with steel

Tinder box of Lead

Three large Photographs showing Batwa men

Tinder-pistol (length 8 ins) combined with ink-well

Tinder Box of Iron

tinder-box of thin sheet brass

Tinder Box of Iron

One of twelve bundles of Sulphur-matches

Glass vials of eider-down tinder and moss

1898-1902

[One of] Three Gas-lighters, Germany

component of electric tape lighter

1876-1877

steel for firemaking

Steel hand striker

electric lighter tape

Gas refil container for butane gas lighter

1969

Tinder-box of oak

Instantaneous Light Box of thin iron; rectangular

Steel, used with flint and tinder, by the Batang-Lupar Dyaks of the Kapuas River, Borneo, 1912

1912

Eider down tinder, used by the Eskimos of Smith's Sound, collected during the Peary Expedition of 1898-1902

Dried moss to convey fire, used by the Eskimos of Smith's Sound, collected during the Peary Expedition of 1898-1902

Sulphur-matches of oat-straw, Dunmow, Essex

Bryant & May's "Flaming Fusees"

Flint striker, one of nine, all from South Downs, Sussex, England

Flint striker, one of nine, all from South Downs, Sussex, England

Flint striker, from Newhaven, one of nine, all from South Downs, Sussex, England

Steel, used with flint and tinder from axis of leaves of Dwarf Palm, Indian

Tinder-box made from the shells of two half-gourds, West Indies, 1910

1910

Flint, steel, and tinder, from tinder-box made from the shells of two half-gourds, West Indies, 1910

1910

[One of] fourteen modern pocket Tinder-tubes, probably French

Flint, for use with one of fourteen modern pocket Tinder-tubes, probably French

[One of] Three Gas-lighters, Germany

tinder box

One of several boxes of Bryant & May's "Braided Cigar Lights"

Strip of wooden matches

hearth carved to shape of a crocodile

electric taper lighters

1876-1877

Instantaneous light device, 1807

1807

"DLI" flintless

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

Flintlock pistol lighter

1701-1800

Pocket candle holder with matches, mid 19th century