Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) metal grasshopper pin the folded

the folded

some paint/text loss primarily on two of them

after it had largely gone out of fashion

mostly wool from what I can tell

Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) metal grasshopper pin the foldedI 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)