Fire-steel (length 2 3/8 ins)

PART OF:: Bryant and May collection of fire-making appliances.

Made:: Bow and Bow and

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Fire-steel (length 2 3/8 ins)
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Fire-steel (length 2 3/8 ins), with large ornamental hand-hold of cast bronze in form of two demi-mermaids, conjoined at the waist, holding the two ends of some kind of bâton; believed to be of the 16th century; formerly in the Lavedan Collection; figured in Gay's "Gloss. Archéol. du Moyen Age", p. 749. France.

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Category:: Firemaking

Object Number:: 1937-682/338

type:: firesteels

credit:: Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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