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Fire-steel (length 3 3/8 ins) combined with ember-tongs; hin

Collection:  SCM - Firemaking

Description:  Fire-steel (length 3 3/8 ins) combined with ember-tongs; hinder arm, of brass, slightly engraved. [NB: one of thirty-three specimens (nos. 424-456), all Spanish, but combined with some other article or articles of frequent personal use (generally with ember-tongs, but often with knife-blade, cork-screw, pipe-prick, screw-driver, hammer, or other). Many possess considerable artistic merit]

Object Number:  1937-682/433

Credit Line:  Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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Bryant and May Limited
1844-1927, manufacturer of matches, English; British
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