- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fire steel with ends bending upwards until they almost meet at the middle and turning back on themselves. [EH [OPS move] 1/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Albanian
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1940
- Date collected
- By 1940
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1940
- Materials and processes
- Material Steel Metal, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 6 mm, Width: max 29 mm, Length: max 53 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.8.02.1 Other numbers: 1927.6622 a and b
Search terms: Fire, Tool, Fire Accessory
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