Record ID: NLM-F3A526
Object type: TINDER BOX
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy cigarette lighter. A copper alloy cylinder, possibly the jacket of a rifle bullet and its cartridge case, or alternatively an object designed to resemble a bullet. The finder kindly suggests this to be an example of trench art; it is certainly inspired by such objects. The removal of a screw-threaded base with spherical suspension loop reveals a cavity for petrol soaked wadding [absent] with a central white metal pipe connecting it to the top. The nose of the bullet also unscrews, revealing a textured steel wheel in brackets above a mounting for a small flint next to the …
Created on: Thursday 13th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme', grid reference and parish protected.