Category Early 1900s North American Medieval Antique Fire Boxes. The long-kept secret alters everything for the close-knit family, and when word of Earnest’s deceit reaches others in the community, the truth pits Amish neighbors against one another and threatens to dry up Earnest’s livelihood–as well as to break up Sylvia’s engagement to the preacher’s grandson. Antique pine and brass coal/tinder box with unique jesting friar bronze sculptures/handles, circa. STRIKER-TINDER Fire striker, flint shard, and 1/2 oz. Our 1700's style tinder box was a mainstay of trappers, traders, voyageur and coureurs de bois back in the day, and now you can store your tinder, tobacco, batteries, ear plugs or other valuables in a copper, brass or German silver tinder box of your own. in which oral ornaments in brass and copper and pieces of mother-of-pearl. To her amazement, the respected convert to the Old Order admits that he is not fit to be a member of the Hickory Hollow Amish church–in fact, he never was.īurdened by the weight of his deception, Earnest Miller reveals the details about his past to Sylvia–and to his wife, Rhoda. STRIKER-KIT Primitive Hunters Fire Making Kit, forged strike-a-light, flint chard, booklet, & brass tinder box. Towards the close of the long period during which the tinder-box was in use. Once Sylvia overcomes her shock, she confronts her father about the contents of the box. Piqued by curiosity, Sylvia unlocks the cherished heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life. Enjoy the character as it builds or clean with an ammonia-based brass cleaner to maintain a polished look.
On the day before her Amish parents’ twentieth wedding anniversary, nineteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across the key to the old brass tinderbox her father keeps in his Lancaster County watch repair shop. Unfinished brass will develop a unique, natural patina with use and age.
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