拍品专文
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Item 1. Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. P.109-110, a similar example illustrated pl.114. fig.U.
Item 1. Miller Christy, The Bryant and May Museum of Fire Making Appliances, London 1926. P.235, fig.1278-9.
These numerous devices intervened between tinder and flint methods and friction matches. The contrivance housed a bottle of sulphuric acid set within an inner case, the outer body would contain the sulphur tipped matches, which when dipped in the bottle ignited.
Item 1. Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. P.109-110, a similar example illustrated pl.114. fig.U.
Item 1. Miller Christy, The Bryant and May Museum of Fire Making Appliances, London 1926. P.235, fig.1278-9.
These numerous devices intervened between tinder and flint methods and friction matches. The contrivance housed a bottle of sulphuric acid set within an inner case, the outer body would contain the sulphur tipped matches, which when dipped in the bottle ignited.