Description: | Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 3/4 in) of iron, closely inlaid with filigree-work in silver, in the form of short straight and zig-zag lines, chequer-work, the Swastika, and the Greek border.[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'.] |