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

Instantaneous Light Bottle containing an acid-bottle and an ink-bottle

Tinder Box of Wood

Tinder Box of Brass

Lighter

Tinder-pistol (length 8 ins) wholly of wrought iron

Tinder Pistol

Tinder-pistol (length 8 1/4 ins) of iron

Tinder-pistol (length 11 ins) of iron

Tinder-pistol (length 8 ins) of iron

Cedar-wood, finely pulverized; as used by some Indian tribes

Tinder-pistol (length 7 ins) of brass

Tinder-pistol contained in a rectangular box of brass (length 4 1/2 ins) having a sliding lid

Tinder-pistol contained in a handsome rectangular box of brass (length 7 1/4 ins)

Tinder-box (length 2 1/8 ins); a sitting hare chased on lid

Tinder-pistol (length 5 1/2 ins) of iron

Tinder Box of Brass

Tinder-box (diam 8 3/4 ins) of tin

Tinder-box (height 5 1/2 ins) of tin

Tinder Box of Iron

Tinder made of agave flower stalk

"DLI" flintless

Dobereiner's Lamp (c.1840-60)

1840-1860

Instantaneous Light Box (height 3 1/8 ins) of tin; oval

Tinder-box (length 2 1/8 ins); similar to above

Tinder Box of Iron

Tinder Box of Iron

Instantaneous Light Box of Sheffield plate.

Modern Lighter for lighting domestic gas jets.

Sulphur-matches (length 3 ins) of wood; very small; dipped after bundling

A Lighter (length 2 5/8 ins) of white-metal

Tinder-tube (length 2 3/4 ins)

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

1810

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"

Bryant and May "Clipper" refillable lighter

Promethean matches in original tin

Gas lighter

Mark III comet ignition device for gas burners

Small metal container for wax vestas

"Poppell" refillable gas lighter

"Monopol" table lighter

Thin iron matchbox containing 100 small wax vestas

1880

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

Flint

Roughly-worked gun-flint