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Lot 347

Four steel Flint Strikers
Persia, 17th/ 18th Century
(4)

29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,629 inc. premium

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Four steel Flint Strikers
Persia, 17th/ 18th Century

swan necked, with terminals in the form of a bird, a dragons, a lion and an arabesque, with openwork and engraved decoration
the largest 16.8 cm. long(4)

Footnotes

These "fire steels" which are of extremely high quality, would have been struck agaisnt a flint to create enough sparks to set the fire.

For a full discussion, see Vittorio Cacciandra and Alessandro Cesati, Fire Steels, Milan, 1996.

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