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.
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
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
Tinderbox
…A tinderbox, or patch box, is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, and tinder (typically charcloth, but possibly a small quantity of dry, finely divided fibrous matter such as hemp), used together to help kindle a fire. A tinderbox…
Birch bark being used as tinder in a campfire