Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) royal copenhager I am not certain the

I am not certain the age of this fan

as found: 12" x 8 5/8"

And with careful attention paid to the carving of the box

which I think adds to its texture rather than detracts

Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) royal copenhager I am not certain theI 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)