Old Tibetan Leather Purse Fire Starter Chuckmuck …beautiful collection item

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Seller: jimapix ✉️ (2,922) 100%, Location: Sydney, New South Wales, AU, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 263899243127 Old Tibetan Leather Purse Fire Starter Chuckmuck …beautiful collection item. The chuckmuck is constructed from a stiff leather purse with a thick curved steel striker attached by rivets to its base. Inside are kept a piece of flint and a little tinder (pulped woody material such as plant roots).

Old Tibetan Leather Purse Fire Starter Chuckmuck

…beautiful collection item

Old Tibetan Leather Purse Fire Starter chuckmuck , a beautiful collection item…

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ;

The chuckmuck is constructed from a stiff leather purse with a thick curved steel striker attached by rivets to its base. The sides and flap of the purse are either sewn or fixed by ornamental metal plates or small plaques. Inside are kept a piece of flint and a little tinder (pulped woody material such as plant roots). On the top fold a thin metal plate with 1 - 3 small hooks allow the pouch to be hung from the belt with a chuckmuck strap: a chain, leather thong or embroidered cloth.

Chuckmucks vary in size and decoration, with the circular boss in the centre of the flap, which operates as a hook to keep the purse closed, sometimes being decorated by a semi-precious stone such as coral or turquoise. Other decorations on the mounts are in silver, brass or iron with geometric patterns, floral designs, Tibetan motifs, or in the animal style. The steel striker is occasionally engraved: with two dragons or Chinese characters. The University of Washington database contains a collection of fire steels including early chuckmucks on plates 45-48 from several countries.

The chuckmuck is hung from the belt in both Mongolian and Tibetan traditional dress for men and women. For this reason, it is sometimes described as a Chatelaine (chain) with strap ornaments, as in the British Museum exhibit. It is sometimes accompanied by a 'chuckmuck purse' as a jewellery set in exactly the same style only lacking the curved steel striker.

It has a flint iron and would have held small pieces of flint/ quartz as well as a wad of natural organic tinder. 
It has inset  brass on the front flap… 

Please see detail photos which form part of the description…   STU/A31

 

The measurements are 

Size: 7 cm High X 8.5 cm Wide @ Blade

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Many of the items for sale at Jim’s International Bazaar were collected by Jim on his around the world adventures as an author, photojournalist and photographer.  They include Turkish rugs, copper and brass, and artifacts from  China,  New Guinea, Africa and South America.  These things are from his privet collection, none were bought for the purpose of reselling but rather to decorate his home.   Many new items will be listed as they are unpacked from storage along with a wonderful collection of photographic prints including many wildlife photos and prints of tigers photographed in  China.

 

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER

 

James Anderson

 

is an internationally renowned photojournalist and adventurer, with two major photographic books (New Guinea & Cannibal), plus covers and major spreads in a whole host of internationally prestigious magazines from Life International to The Geographic and Argosy.

 

He's been shipwrecked in the Pacific, wrestled camels in  Turkey, and scoured the New Guinea Highlands in search of missing American heir and adventurer Michael Rockefeller.  He has also lived and worked in the jungles of  New Guinea  for over two years while collecting material for his books and records.

 

A blue-water yachtsman, he sailed his own 60ft yacht, the "Moana Vahine", from Hong Kong to Southern Turkey, down the South China Sea, across the Indian Ocean, and up the full length of the Red Sea, via Singapore, Panang, Sri lanki, The Maldive Islands, and French Djibouti. An avid diver and spear fisherman, he mounted a series of diving expeditions in The  Maldive  Islands  and The  Red Sea.

 

In addition to several years in  New Guinea, he has organized and/or participated in photographic expeditions in  Kenya  and  Tanzania, in  Brazil  and  Columbia, in  Turkey  and some of the more remote islands of the south pacific. "On board the forty-foot ketch, the "Marquesa", we were the first yacht to visit the remote  island  of  Ua Pou, in the Marquesas in almost two years.

  • Condition: Please see detail photos which form part of the description…
  • Provenance: Mongolian and Tibetan traditional dress
  • Material: Mixed Material
  • Originating Region: Tibet
  • Product Type: Leather Purse / Chuckmuck
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Era: 1900's

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