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Eclipse Antique Bronze Crushproof Leatherette Cigarette Case Easy to Open Book Style Case. This Cigarette Case Can Hold 20 King Size (Short) Cigarettes Can Also be Used to Hold Cash and Credit Cards Each Order Includes(1) Cigarette Case DIMENSIONS: 3.9″ x 3.75″ x 0.75″3102B

A 19th century Austrian fruit knife was repurposed to make this distinguished tamper. Franz Uchatius was one of those gentlemen that makes me wonder if folks from our past were a bit smarter and better than us now. He invented the moving picture projector 38 years before Edison made his. He developed a method for producing a bronze alloy as hard as steel…allowing the manufacture of bronze cannon barrels and knife blades that never tarnish or rust. Oh, and in his spare time he was also a General in the Austrian army. His Stahl Bronce alloy was the older, more clever brother of stainless steel. World War 1 saw stainless win out over Stahl Bronce, so now we are left with a few of these treasures from the last decades of the 1800s. I just wanted you to know how special this little hardwood and Stahl Bronce tamper is…well balanced, beautiful to look at, and wonderfully rare. A top shelf smoking tool by any standard. Anyway, thanks for looking… … .