Backwoodsman/Frontier era fire steel or flint striker. It is a rare C style striker with the curls on the ends bent back inside the striker. This style would have been carried by a settler or longhunter in the Dark and Bloody Ground over the mountains in and around Kentucky and Tennessee. Based on originals pictured in The Kentucky Rifle Hunting Pouch by Madison Grant. For someone recreating a settler or hunter in the Middle. Size is approximately 3 1/4 inch by 1 1/8 inch, and 1/8 inch thick.