Tinder-box made from the shells of two half-gourds, West Indies, 1910

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

Made:: Bow and Bow and

Fire-steel (length 2 3/4 ins) of similar type to foregoing, [no

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Tinder-box (length 6 1/2 ins) made from the shells of two half-gourds, which fit into one another; native work, collected in 1910, by Mr. R. Kislingbury, on Sta. Lucia. West Indies. With flint, steel, and tinder (the latter a piece of the pithy flower-stem of the Agave)

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Category:: Firemaking

Object Number:: 1937-682/399

type:: tinder-box

credit:: Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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