Description:  Locket-like Pistol Tinder-box (length 1 1/2 in) of black iron, with ring and pressure-knobs of brass; top decorated with minute flowers in silver, inlaid.[Nos 1140-1160 'all belong to an exceedingly well-marked form of the tinder-pistol which is confined entirely to Japan. Externally, most of them bear no resemblance ... to a pistol, ... the mechanism being enclosed in a locket-like box... The locket-case is always of metal ... Inside the box is the pistol action'.]

Credit Line:  Wilkinson Sword Ltd.