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Jappaned circular tinder box

"DLI" flintless

Fumalux FL400 electric pocket lighter

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

Promethean matches in original tin

Pocket candle holder with matches, mid 19th century

Small metal container for wax vestas

Flint hydraulic unit for butane table lighter, 1966

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

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

1969

Mark III comet ignition device for gas burners

Flintlock pistol lighter

1701-1800

Clarke's patent electric gas lighter

1880

Amorce cap lighter

Braided cigar lights in labelled box

1890

Two braided cigar lights

One of fourteen modern pocket tinder-tubes

Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 1/2 in) of frosted brass; on top

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 fourteen modern pocket tinder-tubes

Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 1/2 in) wholly of bright brass; on top

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

Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 1/2 in) of frosted brass; on top

Tinder Box of Iron

Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 1/2 in) of bright silver; no decoration

Tinder Box of Brass

Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 3/4 in) in frosted brass; on top

Tinder Box of Pewter

Tinder-box (diam 4 1/2 ins) of thin copper; circular

Fire-piston

Fire-piston (length 4 1/8 ins); cylinder of brass; piston of steel

Fire-piston with cylinder of brass and piston of steel

Model of a Fire-piston (length 5 1/2 ins) of brass

Burning-lens, mounted at end of a cylindrical box (length 2 ins) of brass silvered

Crocodile-tooth Tinder-tube (length 3 ins)

Piece of the fungus

Sheets of amadou or "German tinder"

Tinder-box (5 1/4 x 4 x 1 1/4 ins)

Tinder Box of Iron, flat oval box with steel

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

1810

Tinder-bag in form of a pocket (length 3 7/8 ins)

Tinder Box of Iron

Tinder box of Lead

Tinder-tube (length 2 5/8 ins) of iron; cap and flint both secured by small chains