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Fire-piston with cylinder of brass and piston of steel

Fire-piston, Philippine Islands

Amorce cap lighter

Ronson "Typhoon" petrol lighter

Mechang pouch (chuckmuck), Tibet

Brass oil-lamp-shaded candle handlamp containing ten indexing diminutive self-igniting candles

"DLI" flintless

Pocket candle holder with matches, mid 19th century

Dobereiner's Lamp (c.1840-60)

1840-1860

Clarke's patent electric gas lighter

1880

Small round box containing fifteen "cigar - tips" (early form of cigar lighter) by A.M. Pollak

Butane gas refill canister for Ronson butane lighter

1958

Flint hydraulic unit for butane table lighter, 1966

Rectangular tinder box

Ronson lighter

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

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

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

1969

Thin iron matchbox containing 100 small wax vestas

1880

Jappaned circular tinder box

Windproof

circa 1968

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

1810

Promethean matches in original tin

Flintlock pistol lighter

1701-1800

Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.

1861-1979

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

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

Lighter, one of eight

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

Metal Pocket Lighter, known as "Le Briquet Dangy"

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