Tinderbox
Tinderbox
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tinderbox
- Other Terms
- Tinder Box; Fire Making Apparatus
- date made
- ca 1882
- place made
- United States
- United Kingdom: England
- place collected; place used
- United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
- Physical Description
- iron, tinned sheet (container material)
- paint (container exterior material)
- flint (flints material)
- iron, wrought (firesteel material)
- cotton (charcloth material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 12.3825 cm x 11.43 cm
- ID Number
- DL.057776
- catalog number
- 57776
- subject
- Maritime
- Whaling
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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