Tinder Collection

The Tinder Box (Clarke)
Illustration to the tale by Hans Andersen

Tinder box
Canister tinder box made from sheet iron, with a tube candle socket and a ring carrying handle, made in England c.1750-1775. Date: c.1750-1775

Sir Walter Raleigh laying his cape over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich. She wears a bonnet, huge lace ruff collar, puff sleeves and hoop dress

Cover design, The Tinder Box, Pocket Series booklet
Cover design, The Tinder Box, Pocket Series Fairy Stories booklet

Tinder Box, before matches were widely used
A Tinder Box, before matches became the chief means of obtaining fire

Tinder fungus or hoof fungus, Fomes fomentarius (Polyporus fomentarius). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst

Cries of Paris - matches and tinder seller

The Tinder Box - Hans Andersens Fairy tale. Scene from TheTinder Box published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: Mabel Lucie Attwell circa 1912

MATCH & TINDER SELLER MATCH & TINDER SELLER
A Parisian woman selling matches and tinder. Date: early 19th century

Boots - Comforts for Campaginers advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists and their various suggestions for comforts - gifts to send to men fighting at the front during the First World War

Gifts for soldiers from J. C. Vickery, WW1
Advertisement for J. C. Vickery, Their Majesties Jewellers, with two suggestions out of their various novelties and comforts for men on active service - a weatherproof match box

The Tinder Box. From Once Upon a Time (1970)

The Brighton Matchman
John Standing, known as the Brighton Matchman, at the age of 77; his matches are used with a tinder box

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