An antique Tibetan mixed metal flint pouch, called a Chuckmuck, an onomatopoeic word that resembles the sound made by the steel striker when it is stricken on the flint stone. Chuckmucks were used by travelers in the remote Himalayas and Tibetan plateau, where the ability to produce fire was a necessity of survival. It has the common thick, curved, steel striker along the bottom. Chuckmucks were worn suspended from leather belts or mechags and were made of leather, brass, silver and a variety of stones and beads for decoration. This example is an earlier hand tooled piece with a simple floral pattern etched into the alloy. Flint pouches gradually slipped into obscurity when matches became commonplace; by the end of the 19th century they were rarely still used. Circa: 19th century. Antique Asian Flints, Match Strikers, Meta Wares, and Collectibles.