- Item type
- Object
- Inventory No
- 20107
Description
A cream card box without a lid containing 32 matchboxes of various makers, some of which still contain matches. The matchboxes include:
A set of 12 Bryant & May matchboxes, all with their matches. The set includes eight decorated with a lake view; two boxes of Ruby Matches; a box of Safety Fuses; and a box of Special Safety Matches.
A set of five United Service Cigar Lights matchboxes, all with their matches. The matchboxes are decorated on each side with a soldier with a flag. The drawers of the matchboxes are covered with either purple, green or blue paper. The matches inside have black heads with a red spot on the end.
Two matchboxes with their matches produced by J. Hynam's. One is a box of wax vestas with wax-covered string matches, the other box is perfumed cigar fuses of card fuses.
A W. Barber's matchbox of Royal Magic Scented Fuses, with its card fuses.
A H. Walker's matchbox of Congreves matches, with its wooden matches.
A set of three Tandstickor matchboxes, all with their matches. Two of the boxes are decorated, one with a bird the other with a lion and the third just the maker's details with a handwritten note on it.
A Vesuvian matchbox with matches, decorated with an image of Vesuvius and instructions on lighting a cigar with the matches.
A matchbox with its matches, made in Berlin. The matchbox is decorated with an eagle and two figures.
A matchbox with its matches, made in Vienna. The matchbox is decorated with two smoking figures.
A Safety Match matchbox without matches, made in Orebro, Sweden. The matchbox is decorated with a lion.
A matchbox with two matches, from Marseille. The matchbox has a flap lip which unfold to reveal the strike strip, and it is decorated with scenes from Spass-na-sennoi and Spass Prebrajanie.
A matchbox manufactured in Milan, Italy, with the tray of matches still sealed. The matchbox is decorated with a portrait of a woman on one side and two women on the other.
A matchbox with matches, decorated with two baskets of flowers and characters written on a black background.
A Bell & Co.s matchbox with Wax Vestas matches.
(.1: set of 12 Bryant & May Matchboxes; .2: United Service Cigar Lights; .3: Two Hynam's matchboxes; .4: Barber's matchbox; .5: Walker's matchbox; .6: Three Tandstickor matchboxes; .7: Vesuvian; .8: Berlin matchbox; .9: Vienna matchbox; .10: Orebro matchbox: .11: Marseille matchbox; .12: Milan matchbox; .13: Matchbox with flower decorations; .14: Bell matchbox; .15: Cream card box)
