Original Early American Iron Flintlock Tinder Lighter with Plaque Engraved to Sun Inn, Bethlehem PA - Still in Existence French Holster flying from Plaines de Gaiac

flying from Plaines de Gaiac on New Caledonia

Beads are correct glass trade beads from the period which have been sewn tightly (in the correct manner… not “lazy stitched”

the 4th Infantry under the command of Colonel Robert Hall escorted Coxey's Army through Washington and Idaho to guard the Northern Pacific Railway from Coxey's men

which look to be mostly German WWII

and above this is a nice close winged "Reichsadler" National Eagle with a mobile swas on its breast

Original Early American Iron Flintlock Tinder Lighter with Plaque Engraved to Sun Inn, Bethlehem PA - Still in Existence French Holster flying from Plaines de GaiacOriginal Item: One of a Kind. Purchased in Allentown some time, ago this old tinder lighter has plainly laid in a barn or out house for many years and is pitted overall. Complete with a candle stand on the left side, the moving parts are all exposed on the right hand face of an enclosed compartment intended to store one's "tinder". These were first used as fire lighters by the flint striking a spark on the frizzen, which ignited the "tinder" in the