Description:  Fire-steel (length 4 ins), combined with large knife-blade and a (?) spring-balance; sides of steel cut and engraved to represent head of lion; blade stamped with maker's mark (an oak leaf). [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]

Credit Line:  Wilkinson Sword Ltd.

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