any info on this lighter case??

[funkman]

Found this lighter case a few weeks ago but didn;t get the chance to post it......actually I forgot about it and when looking through the camera media card found the pic. Can anyone give me some info on this lighter case? It has on the one side what appears to be an eagle holding a branch or something in his talons. Cannot find any manufacturing marks on it at all. Anyone know what company made this or have an idea when from?

Thanks

Funkman

 

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[watercolor]

I think you found an old "match safe" for wooden kitchen matches.

May of those were manufactured and used as premiums and
if I had to put a date with it, I'd say late 19th-early 20th century.
I donated one to the CTH last year and I think "MasterEagle22"
has it. . . maybe he can post a pic of his.

 

[Montana Jim]

I think you found an old "match safe" for wooden kitchen matches.

May of those were manufactured and used as premiums and
if I had to put a date with it, I'd say late 19th-early 20th century.
I donated one to the CTH last year and I think "MasterEagle22"
has it. . . maybe he can post a pic of his.

I agree completely.

You only posted one picture, more would have been better, but i think I see a knurled or roughed pattern on the botton of your matchsafe which would have been where the matches were struck.

Probebly victorian, maybe a little older given the eagle motif. IMO It's not silver, or fancy, or marked, or souvenier... so it may have been produced cheaply and possibly in large quantities - and may have been an unofficial army issue thing... or available to soldiers? The eagle motif was common on everything for many years - so who knows...

 

[Rob66]

Sounds about right- zippos started in the 1930s.