Post #759553 by TorchGuy on Tue, Feb 23, 2016 8:23 AM

Here's a Cape Cod firelighter https://ebth-com-production.imgix.net/2015/07/01/18/16/49/37/_MG_1198.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.0.0&w=781&h=855&fit=max&crop=

The "hot buttered rum pot, with poker" pictured in the book, looks like an all-brass version of this: a decorative, bulbous pot on three stubby legs, with thick loops on the sides for the wire bail, a shallow lid with a finial, and a poker consisting of a short, stout rod with a looped handle, having a sphere on the other end. The biggest differences are that it was, I suspect, smaller than a firelighter, and the poker end would not have been porous.