Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A flint and tinder pouch, with integral steel striker, the body of the pouch formed of hide reinforced with openwork copper panels backed by red fabric, heavy curved steel fixed to lower edge with geometrically incised bands between, handle attached to two iron rings. The type is commonly identified as Tibetan, but this example is from the collection of the late Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton, K.C.B., who served mainly in East and West Africa.