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Specimen of raw flint

Specimen of raw flint

Flint

Flint

Flint from Vlora, Albania

Flint from Vlora, Albania

Flint, finely worked round edge

Flint, finely worked round edge

Flint

Flint

Leather firebag containing steel, tinder, pipe, and flint

Leather firebag containing steel, tinder, pipe, and flint

1890-1920

Flint (a small rough lump of chert; length 1 in)

Flint (a small rough lump of chert; length 1 in)

Tinder-pouch of bright red leather

Tinder-pouch of bright red leather

before 1937

Roughly-worked gun-flint

Roughly-worked gun-flint

Three pieces of flint (glass) used for glazing

Three pieces of flint (glass) used for glazing

Flint used in making white earthenware

Flint used in making white earthenware

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

A series of thirteen Gun- and Pistol-flints

A series of thirteen Gun- and Pistol-flints

Flint

Flint

Flint Adze Danish

Flint Adze Danish

Object illustrating the Cire Perdue method

Object illustrating the Cire Perdue method

1957

Wooden tinder box and extinguisher (wormeaten), flint and steel, tinder, and nine sulphur matches

Tinder box and contents for firemaking

Cloth firebag containing tinder, steel, flint and pipe, reputedly from Neemuch, Central India, 1850-1920

Cloth firebag containing tinder

1850-1920

Steel hand striker with piece of flint

Steel hand striker with piece of flint

Cloth firebag containing steel, flint and tinder, from Rajastan, India, 1850-1920

Cloth firebag containing steel

1850-1920

Striking flint and piece of haematite

Striking flint and piece of haematite

Flint after grinding by mill

Flint after grinding by mill

Flint, four (approx.) equal sided pyramid with flat top, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Flint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

Flint, (approx.) Australia map shaped, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Flint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

Flint, irregular shaped, dark-grey, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Flint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

Flint Flake, used for striking fire, picked up by Mr. H. M. Wallis on the edge of the desert, about two miles from El Kantara, Algiers; probably imported from Europe.

Flint Flake

Raw flint

Flint, triangular one side, with flat opposite side, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Flint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

Flint, approx. ‘foot’ shape, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Flint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

Flint and steel in flat tin holder, Welsh

Flint and steel in flat tin holder

Flint, oblong shaped pyramid with flat top, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Flint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

Fitted flint

Flint core, owned by Dr. T. Wilson Parry and probably used by him as a source of material for making instruments used in trephination experiments, England, 1918-1920

Flint core

1918-1920

Flint hydraulic unit for butane pocket lighters, 1966

Flint hydraulic unit for butane pocket lighters

1966

[One of a group of] Various worked Flints made at Valona, Albania; various sizes (from 1 in to 1 3/4 in long); all rectangular and of special type; finely chipped all over the surface, and with a sharp striking-edge all round, unlike the western-European type; two of them partly enclosed in ornamental sheaths of thin cast lead, probably to prevent wear to pocket or pouch. Albania.

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

Flint (approx.) triangular in plan, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Flint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

[One of a group of] Various worked Flints made at Valona, Albania; various sizes (from 1 in to 1 3/4 in long); all rectangular and of special type; finely chipped all over the surface, and with a sharp striking-edge all round, unlike the western-European type; two of them partly enclosed in ornamental sheaths of thin cast lead, probably to prevent wear to pocket or pouch. Albania.

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

[One of a group of] Various worked Flints made at Valona, Albania; various sizes (from 1 in to 1 3/4 in long); all rectangular and of special type; finely chipped all over the surface, and with a sharp striking-edge all round, unlike the western-European type; two of them partly enclosed in ornamental sheaths of thin cast lead, probably to prevent wear to pocket or pouch. Albania.

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

[One of a group of] Various worked Flints made at Valona, Albania; various sizes (from 1 in to 1 3/4 in long); all rectangular and of special type; finely chipped all over the surface, and with a sharp striking-edge all round, unlike the western-European type; two of them partly enclosed in ornamental sheaths of thin cast lead, probably to prevent wear to pocket or pouch. Albania.

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

[One of a group of] Various worked Flints made at Valona, Albania; various sizes (from 1 in to 1 3/4 in long); all rectangular and of special type; finely chipped all over the surface, and with a sharp striking-edge all round, unlike the western-European type; two of them partly enclosed in ornamental sheaths of thin cast lead, probably to prevent wear to pocket or pouch. Albania.

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

Blue flat plastic container, inscribed with: “Calibri MONOFLINT”, containing flint, part of Hildburgh Collection of illuminating and fire making devices, collected by Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, F.S.A, London, England, 1910-1950

Calibri Monoflint from collection of fire making devices

1910-1950

[One of a group of] Various worked Flints made at Valona, Albania; various sizes (from 1 in to 1 3/4 in long); all rectangular and of special type; finely chipped all over the surface, and with a sharp striking-edge all round, unlike the western-European type; two of them partly enclosed in ornamental sheaths of thin cast lead, probably to prevent wear to pocket or pouch. Albania.

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona