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Description: | Tinderbox resembling a flintlock pistol with wooden handle curving down like pistol butt, which is decorated on each side with a series of brass studs. This is attached to brass body which conceals the mechanism, and the trigger, hammer and clamp for flint and lid of tinder pan are steel. There is some material in the pan, the side of the body has a brass candle holder attached by an arm and the other has a door to an inner compartment, opened by a steel catch. A brass leg in front has a rectangular wooden foot.
Material: metal, iron (steel)
Material: metal, copper alloy, brass
Material: wood | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.decorativeart&design.2763 |
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