Image
Category
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

Flint hydraulic unit for butane table lighter, 1966

Rectangular tinder box

Flintlock pistol lighter

1701-1800

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

"DLI" flintless

Pocket candle holder with matches, mid 19th century

Dobereiner's Lamp (c.1840-60)

1840-1860

Clarke's patent electric gas lighter

1880

Small round box containing fifteen "cigar - tips" (early form of cigar lighter) by A.M. Pollak

Butane gas refill canister for Ronson butane lighter

1958

Ronson lighter

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

Box of Bryant & May's braided cigar lights

Match holder for wax vestas

Petrol lighter "Avant X"

Fumalux FL400 electric pocket lighter

Bryant and May "Clipper" refillable lighter

Gas lighter

Mark III comet ignition device for gas burners

Two braided cigar lights

Small metal container for wax vestas

"Poppell" refillable gas lighter

"Monopol" table lighter

Amorce cap lighter

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

1969

Jappaned circular tinder box

Windproof

circa 1968

Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.

1861-1979

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

Roughly-worked gun-flint

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 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