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Lot 442

A Flintlock Tinderlighter
18th Century

1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £432 inc. premium

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A Flintlock Tinderlighter
18th Century

With brass box-lock body engraved with foliage, hinged side-plate with shaped iron handle, engraved en suite and stamped with maker's name 'I. Savige', chiselled external mechanism on the right side, bipod on turned pillar, and figured globose butt carved behind the tang
21.2 cm.

Footnotes

For a similar example formerly in the John Steel Cooper Collection and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns, 27 July 2006, lot 498

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