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Le Loup

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This is my original 18th century fire steel.
Keith.
 
Bag of fluff, brown bag with back up kit and smoke, tinder box, flint, compass/ sundial, tobacco pouch, tamper and pipe, steel in tinderbox
Other bag, my main kit, tinderbox, candle stub, tinder tube , hemp string to make fluff from, iron pyrite. That’s an HBC box with burning glass, I carry it all the time but I Think it’s post 1820s
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its a work in progress, for over 25 years now.
i really like your roll down top on your kit so im gonna make a new bag and grease it.
the box is a shoe polish can but next order to Track im ordering something different

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here is my version of a small hand made tinderbox with candle holder. I beat it out of sheet copper and crudely soldered it together. not an exact copy of any originals i could find. i want something small for my fire bag. im thinking its better than the shoe polish can.
 

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Here’s my fire kit the tin is from some type of candy mint it’s nice because it didn’t have any lettering on it so after a few rounds of char there is no evidence of it’s sordid past.
 

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