WHAT IS ?

[MR Senior L4S]

Found in area of WWII pr. camp . ( buckle ?)

 

[daroofa]

Looks like a flattened matchbox holder...something like this

 

[Ramitt]

that looks like a match daroofa.

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

This is a Chinese brass enamel matchbox holder:

http://www.tias.com/9058/PictPage/3923214045.html

 

[clovis97]

I am kind of curious:

Were matches kept in these to keep mice away out of them, so they couldn't chew on the matches, and start a fire? Even though it looks to be a pocket sized match holder?

My grandmother, born in 1917, would never keep "strike anywhere" wood matches anywhere but a steel box because mice could start a fire.

 

[Deftone]

Lol. I'm sure these were to keep matches from the elements or to just look cool. From my experience mice usually go for the matchbox first. But yes i see the mouse taking the match n dragging it against the wall OMG!!!!

 

[MR Senior L4S]

This is a Chinese brass enamel matchbox holder:

http://www.tias.com/9058/PictPage/3923214045.html

////////// Thank ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --------------------- specjal made for worriers? ----- (sword holding on one face of cameo prtrait )

 

[NaturalJWL]

More to keep the box from being crushed while in your pocket.

If that one found, was in a pocket when crushed, they had a bad, bad day.