Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) royal copenhager though it was found in

though it was found in Massachusetts

15" long x 7 1/8" wide x 4" tall

Image size: 4 1/4" x 6 7/8"

Or perhaps the five spikes for its body served some other practical function

I am not certain the age of this fan

Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) royal copenhager though it was found inI 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)