Virtually every one I see on eBay and at shows called Rev War or
Civil War are from Bulgaria. I have sold dozens of them for $12 - $20
to Civil War dealers and they walk across the aisle and tag
them "Confederate fire steel, found in Virginia" or such for $200 +.
Stick them in a brass or tin snuff box with a gun flint and the price
is higher. I have never seen one dug here but there is much I haven't
seen.
Of course, when antiquities dealers have them, they are
generally "Roman soldier's flint striker," never an illeterate
farmer's striker.
I am wary of the ones with fancy bronze handles.
Here is one site:
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/fire.shtml
http://www.ragweedforge.com/striker.html
The Viking ones are exactly like the ones that come from Bulgaria.
Firestrikers (strike-a-lights)
Steve
--- In Ancientartifacts@yahoogroups.com, "jeffkeith2001"
<jeffhallen001@...> wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me how you can tell one flint stiker from another?
On
> Ebay I've searched for them and found them as old as Roman and as
late
> as American Revelution yet I find no real distinction between them.
Is
> there a way to tell or are these Ebay dealers guessing? Or perhaps
> telling a story?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
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