Tinder
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Tinder is easily combustible material used to start a fire. Tinder is a finely divided, open material which will begin to glow under a shower of sparks. Air is gently wafted over the glowing tinder un
Birch bark being used as tinder in a campfire
Tinderbox
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A tinderbox, or patch box, is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, and tinder, used together to help kindle a fire. A tinderbox may also contain sulfur-tipped matches.
Tinder
…Specially prepared stringybark, known as morthi, used by the Kaurna people of South Australia Tinderbox Firelighter…
Sheet iron tinderboxes. English, 18th and early 19th C.
Pocket tinderbox with firesteel and flint. This type was used during the Boer War due to a scarcity of matches
Wooden tinderbox with separate compartments for the firesteel, flint etc. and tinder. English or Welsh, 18th C.
A London street seller of matches for tinderboxes in 1821