Object Details
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Virginia W. Hillyer
- 1760 - 1780
- year acquired
- 1924
- ID Number
- DL.377280
- catalog number
- 377280
- accession number
- 136485
- Object Name
- lighter
- Other Terms
- Tinder Pistol; Fire Making Apparatus
- Physical Description
- brass (barrel; sideplate; trigger plate and guard; inlay; pommel cap material)
- iron (firing mechanism; lockplate; trigger; taper holder material)
- walnut (stock material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 5/8 in x 9 5/8 in x 3 in; 4.1275 cm x 24.4475 cm x 7.62 cm
- place made
- Italy
- place acquired
- France: Île-de-France, Paris
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_308609
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-4ced-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
