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Tinder tube made from scaly tail of armadillo

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1820-1920

Leather firebag containing steel, tinder, pipe, and flint

Asian Medicine

1890-1920

Small piece of amadon fungus tinder, a plain white envelope, English, 19th century

Small piece of amadon fungus tinder

Smoking

1801-1900

Paper envelope containing a tiny piece of Sumatran, tinder resembling a portion of amadon, envelope, inscribed "Sumatra", so Sumatran, 1851-1900

Paper envelope containing a tiny piece of Sumatran

Smoking

1851-1900

String firebag containing pipe, flint, tinder and steel, reputedly from Rajastan, India, 1850-1920

String firebag containing pipe

Asian Medicine

1850-1920

Box lid full of black ash tree fungus tinder, mushroom shaped tinder, mushroom shaped including various segments, possibly collected in England, 1851-1880

Box lid full of black ash tree fungus tinder

Smoking

1851-1880

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

Cloth firebag containing tinder

Asian Medicine

1850-1920

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