


Note the damper for the tinder box above and the square one for the wooden tinder box below. This is to put out the smouldering tinder after use.


This tinder box appears to have its own conical candle snuffer. All three tinder boxes have candle holders on the lids.



The author's tinderbox with charred tinder fungus, uncharred punk wood and a musket flint..JPG)
A Fire Box was a Tinder Box. Both names might be used to describe the equipment used to make fire, for instance a musket lock used to make fire could be called a tinder box as mentioned in Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe. So by the same rule I would think that a tinderlighter could also be termed a tinder box or fire works.
'fire or Tinder-boxes the groce, containing twelve dozen boxes' [Rates (1660)].
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'fire or Tinder-boxes the groce, containing twelve dozen boxes' [Rates (1660)].
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=58765#s1