Description: | [One of] Two Fusee-boxes (2 5/8 x 1 1/2 x 1/2 ins) of thin iron [only one of the two acquired], stamped to shape; rectangular, with hinged lid, rounded corners, and tapering edges; stamped on top, "R. Bell's Registered Fusees, 16 Basing Lane, London", with a panel roughened for friction; on bottom, the Registration Mark (No. 2103, 3 Dec. 1849); boxes contain, respectively, thirteen and fifteen (originally twenty) cardboard Fusees, in two strips, printed on front "R. "Bell, Regd. No. 1971, Basing Lane, Lo[ndon]"; each fusee pointed at tip, with red head; date about 1850. |