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1938.35.808

Pocket strike-a-light. [PRA [OPS move] 5/9/2017]

1938.35.808

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pocket strike-a-light. [PRA [OPS move] 5/9/2017]
Long description
Pocket strike-a-light consisting of a textured ?brass tube extinguisher, with a disk-shaped stopper. There is a flat, oval fire steel with a rectangular opening in the middle clamped to its side. A length of blue cord tinder passes through the tube. There is a roughly rectangular-shaped flint, brown in colour, fastened by a metal chain to the stopper. [PRA [OPS move] 5/9/2017]
Cultural groups
English
Person
Maker Unknown Maker
Field collector Sydney Gerald Hewlett
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1896
Date collected
By 1896
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes
Material Steel Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Flint Stone, Material Brass Metal, Process Clamped, Process Cast, Process Braided
Dimensions
Depth: max 18 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 266 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.35.808 Other numbers: 1520

Search terms: Fire, Vessel, Fire Accessory, Tinder

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