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Description: | Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 3/4 in) of frosted brass; ring missing; on top, three characters in relief, which probably represent an attempt by a Japanese to reproduce European lettering.[Nos 1140-1160 'all belong to an exceedingly well-marked form of the tinder-pistol which is confined entirely to Japan. Externally, most of them bear no resemblance ... to a pistol, ... the mechanism being enclosed in a locket-like box... The locket-case is always of metal ... Inside the box is the pistol action'.] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1937-682/1147 | Go to resource |
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