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18th Century Material Culture

Fire Starting


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Flint & SteelTinder Boxes


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Tinder Box, Striker & Flint(Private Collection)

All fire and no smoke, a very Good Flint or a very Good Steel, do you want a Good Flint and Steel?

by Paul Sandby, sold by F. Vivarez, Engraver on Newport Street 1760(Lewis Walpole Library)


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Fire Steel - Flint Striker

18th Century(Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota)


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Fire Steel - Flint Striker

18th Century(Grand Portage National Monument, Minnesota)


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Fire Steel - Flint Strikers

Late 18th - Early 19th Century(Skinner)


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TinderBoxes


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Steel Tinder Box, Steel Striker (Fire Steel), Tow & Flint

18th Century(Private Collection)


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Wood Tinder Box & Steel Striker

Late 18th Century(Art Antiques Michigan)


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Wood Tinder Box & Steel Striker

Late 18th Century(Art Antiques Michigan)


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CandlestickTinder Boxes


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English Sheet Brass Candlestick Tinder Box& Steel Striker

c. 1770 - 1800(Wendy Hamilton Antiques / G.S. Theberge Collection)


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English Sheet Brass Candlestick Tinder Box& Steel Striker

c. 1770 - 1800(Wendy Hamilton Antiques / G.S. Theberge Collection)


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American, English or Dutch Brass Candlestick Tinder Box with Steel Striker

18th Century(Chambersticks.com)


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Dutch Sheet Brass Candlestick Tinderbox with Steel Striker

c. 1700 - 1730(Winterthur)


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English Sheet Brass Candlestick Tinderbox with Steel Striker



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English Sheet Brass Candlestick Tinderbox with Steel Striker



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English or Dutch Sheet Brass Candlestick Tinder Box with Steel Striker



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American Tinned Sheet Iron & Wood Candlestick Tinder Box with Steel Striker



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American Tinned Sheet Iron Candlestick Tinder Box with Steel Striker

c. 1770 - 1830(Antique Associates of West Townsend)


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English Tinned Sheet Iron Candlestick Tinder Box with Steel Striker, Flint, Tow & Tapers

c. 1775 - 1825(The British Museum)


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PowderTesters - Lighters


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Flint and Steel Fire LighterMarked JT & 1776

Once Owned by John Trumbell, Aide - De- Camp of General Washington(Morristown National Historic Park)


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English Powder Tester - Lighter with Candlestickc. 1785

(Private Collection)


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London Powder Tester - Lighter

London c. 1785


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English Tinder Lighter

18th Century(Skinner Auction House)


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English Tinder Lighter18th Century

(Skinner Auction House)


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English Tinder Lighterc. 1780

(Skinner Auction House)


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MatchesWood Tapers


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Matches

Matches during the 17th and 18th centuries were sticks dipped on both ends with phosphorousof sulfur. They did not self ignite with friction. Held to hot embers or a spark within a piece ofchar cloth, they were used to light a pipe or start a fire with slightly greater ease. They wereoften sold in bundles by street venders.

The first modern self-igniting matches were introduced to the public in 1805 by Jean Chancel,assistant to French chemist Louis Jacques Thnard.


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Russian Cinder Bowl & Sulfur Tipped Matches for Lighting a Pipe

by Pieter Claesz 1636(The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia)


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Russian Cinder Bowl & a Bundle of Sulfur Tipped Matches for Lighting a Pipe

by Pieter Claesz 1636(The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia)


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A Bundle of 24 Dutch Matches Matches Made From Dried Stems of Hemp Dipped in Sulphur18th Century

5 Long(National Museums Scotland)


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The Cries of the City of London Any Card matches or Savealls

by Marcellus Laroon II c. 1688, Republished c. 1750(The British Museum)


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Moll Handy - A Bunch of Matches in Her Right Hand

by George Bickham the Younger c. 1740 - 1749(The British Museum)


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The Match Maker - An Itinerant Seller of Matches

by John Wright, Published by Henry Parker c. 1767 - 1773(The British Museum)


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by Robert Laurie, Published by John Smirth after Robert Dighton 1779

(The British Museum)


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Paper of Tobacco

Matches /Tapersfor

Lighting

by Robert Laurie, Published by John Smirth after Robert Dighton 1779

(The British Museum)


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The GIN SHOP DISPLAYED

by Carington Bowles c. 1764 - 1784(The British Museum)

Match Boy


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Cries of Paris - A French Woman Selling Matches

18th Century(Gallica)


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Cries of Paris - A French Woman Selling Matches

18th Century(Gallica)


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CRIES of LONDON Do you want any Matches?

by Anthony Carson after Francis Wheatley 1794(Yale Center for British Art)


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CRIES of LONDON Do you want any Matches?

by Anthony Carson after Francis Wheatley 1794(The British Museum)


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MATCHES

by T.L. Busby Late 18th - Early 19th Century(Lewis Walpole Library)


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Lighters


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Dutch Brass Lighter



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Dutch Brass Lighter



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Chandlers:Sellers of Candles & Soap


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The CHANDLERS SHOP GOSSIPS, or WONDERFUL NEWS"by Carington Bowles c. 1770

(Colonial Williamsburg)


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Candles & Wicks


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From an original painting in the Possession of George Rogers, Esq"for T. Bowen

(Lewis Walpole Library)


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Chaandelier - Candle MakingThe Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert 1763

(University of Michigan Library)


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Chaandelier - Candle MakingThe Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert 1763

(University of Michigan Library)


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New England Dipping Sticks for Making Tallow CandlesLate 18th to Early 19th Century

(Sharon Platt)


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New England Dipping Sticks for Making Tallow CandlesLate 18th to Early 19th Century

(Sharon Platt)


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New England Tallow Candles18th to Early 19th Century

(Sharon Platt)


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(Sharon Platt)


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(Sharon Platt)


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Tallow Candles

(Skinner)


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Tallow Candles(Skinner)


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New England Candle Drier in Dark Brown PaintLate 18th Century

(Sharon Platt)


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NEHEMIAHS DISASTER.... A TALE"England 1769

(Wellcome Library)


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Acknowledgements

Special thanks is extended to Paul Dickfoss and Karen Harrisfor their many contributions to the matches section of this

slideshow.


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