Object Details
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 19th century
- Physical Description
- iron, wrought (firesteel frame material)
- agate (bottom material)
- brass, gilt (mounts material)
- wood or fungus, tinder (tinder material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 1 5/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 4.1275 cm x 2.54 cm
- Object Name
- tinderbox
- Other Terms
- Tinder Box; Fire Making Apparatus
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