Description: | Smoker's Outfit (5 1/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 ins); exterior japanned; hinges of brass; match-striker on inner side of lid at one end; brass initial-plate, engraved "M.H.," on larger lid; contains very small pipe, of Jacobean date; all original contents missing. ? England. [One of 3 items (nos. 669b-d) which are all Smoker's Outfits, intended for the pocket. Each is in form of a box of thin sheet metal, long rectangular in shape, consisting of three compartments designed to contain, respectively, a pipe, tobacco and a steel, and a flint, with a hinged lid to each (one at one side and one at each end). All are well made and probably of the early 19th Century, as two have affixed to them (but perhaps added later) strikers for matches.] |