A small box of fire-making toolsSourced
Lighting a fire once involved a kit
A tinderbox stored items such as flint, firesteel and tinder for kindling a fire. The container kept the necessary materials together. As friction matches spread, these kits became less common in ordinary use. A task now associated with one small item once involved several.
The box organized the start of a flame.
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