Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) design learning of Greenfield

of Greenfield

Pieces are 3 3/16” long

on which there is some loss of lacquer on the backside in one corner

and I'm not sure what the black line is crossing just above its mouth

And itself a vessel

Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) design learning of GreenfieldI had not seen another example of one of these when I found this it is a brass tobacco (or tinder) box, with magnifying glass at center of the lid (with brass cap to cover it), with the magnifier meant to be used for starting a fire lighting one's pipe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, during the fur trade era, boxes like this were produced by The Hudson Bay Trading Company in Canada, among others; this is a c. 1960s version, produced by (and marked)