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when it's just well alight you drops it into the box and 

 quenches it with the damper.' 



A better class of tinder-box was made of brass, and has 

 the same kind of straight handle as the good, simple hand- 



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Brass Tinder-Box and Brass Candlestick 



candlestick, also of brass, of frying-pan shape' — a pattern that 

 was widely used, for it was made also in silver. 



' The first lucifer matches I ever seen,' said one of my 

 old neighbours, 'was in the year 1839. They came from 



Candle-Box 



Southampton and were called Congreves, and were sold by 

 the gross. I think they were made in France.' 



An improvement on the rush-light was the rush-candle, 



