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Leather firebag containing steel, tinder, pipe, and flint

1890-1920

Flint used in making white earthenware

Specimen of raw flint

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-pouch of bright red leather

before 1937

Flint

Flint from Vlora, Albania

Flint

Three pieces of flint (glass) used for glazing

Flint Adze Danish

Flint and steel in flat tin holder, Welsh

Flint and steel in flat tin holder

Flint hydraulic unit for butane pocket lighters, 1966

Flint hydraulic unit for butane pocket lighters

1966

Striking flint and piece of haematite

Striking flint and piece of haematite

Raw flint

Flint after grinding by mill

Flint after grinding by mill

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

Cloth firebag containing tinder

1850-1920

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

[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

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

Fitted flint

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

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

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, 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

[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

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 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

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

Cloth firebag containing steel

1850-1920

Steel hand striker with piece of flint

Steel hand striker with piece of flint

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

Tinder box and contents for firemaking

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