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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

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)

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

Flint, finely worked round edge

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

One of five fire-steels

Piece of the fungus

Pocket-knife (length 4 ins)

One of twelve bundles of Sulphur-matches

One of twelve bundles of Sulphur-matches

Sulphur-matches (length 6 3/4 ins) of pine-wood; very broad and square-ended

Two Sulphur Matches, about 5 1/2 inches long

Sulphur-matches (length 5 ins) of semi-fossilized wood

Sulphur-matches (length 6 1/2 ins) of hemp-stalk (chènevottes souffrées)

Sulphur-matches (length 6 ins) of wood; pointed; made at Houffalize

Sulphur-matches (length 5 ins) of wood; square-ended; made in Paris

Sulphur-matches made of oat-straw (nine additional examples)

Sulphur-matches (length 4 ins) of wood; thin broad rectangular shavings