- Subject
- Firemaking
- Item type
- Object
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed sheet stuck around box. Face 1: "BELL & BLACK'S / MAGIC LIGHTS". Face 2: "BELL & BLACK'S / MAGIC LIGHTS, / 15, BOW LANE, / LONDON.". Face 3: "USE BELL & BLACK'S / SAFETY MATCHES which are / NOT POISONOUS / BOXES PATENTED MARCH.1868."
- Object type
- Matches
- Dimensions
- Height: 33mm Width: 70mm Depth: 50mm
- Inventory No
- 21450
Safety Matches, by Bell & Black, English, c. 1875
Inventory Number 21450
Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.21450


