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Fire-piston with cylinder of brass and piston of steel

A Lighter (length 2 3/4 ins) of brass

Tinder-box (length 2 1/2 ins); on lid

Tinder-box (length 2 1/2 ins); on lid

A Lighter (length 3 1/4 ins) made from

Lighter, one of eight

A Lighter (length 2 1/2 ins) made from a nickelled rifle-cartridge

One of three gas-lighters

One of Two Lighters (length 2 1/8 ins) of identical make; both of iron

A Lighter (length 2 1/4 ins) very similar to foregoing (no. 1381)

A Lighter (length 2 1/2 ins) of exactly similar type to above

Flint hydraulic unit for butane table lighter, 1966

Metal Pocket Lighter, known as "Le Briquet Dangy"

Rectangular tinder box

Ronson lighter

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"

Fumalux FL400 electric pocket lighter

Bryant and May "Clipper" refillable lighter

Promethean matches in original tin

Braided cigar lights in labelled box

1890

Gas lighter

Mark III comet ignition device for gas burners

Two braided cigar lights

Small metal container for wax vestas

"Poppell" refillable gas lighter

"Monopol" table lighter

Amorce cap lighter

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

1969

Thin iron matchbox containing 100 small wax vestas

1880

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

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

A series of thirteen Gun- and Pistol-flints

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a group of various worked flints made at Valona

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels

Flint

Roughly-worked gun-flint

One of a series of eighty-one fire-steels