A collection of steel flint-strikers and belt hooks
Persia, 15th-19th Centurycomprising nine flint strikers - a fine Timurid example in the form of a dragon; two fine Safavid watered steel examples in the form of dragons; a further Afsharid example dated 1152 with the name of Nader Shah; a Qajar example with leather strap; four smaller examples, one in the form of a snake, another in the form of a parakeet; and eight belt hooks and fittings
the largest flint striker 13.8 cm. long(17)注脚Provenance
Mark and Peter Dineley Collections, UK.

Inscriptions: 'al-Sultan Nadir Shah, the year 1152' (AD 1739-40).

The Timurid flint striker, dating to the 15th Century, is almost identical to an example in the Tanavoli Collection (see James Allan & Brian Gilmour, Persian Steel, The Tanavoli Collection, Oxford, 2000, p. 439, no. 73.