Matches Collection (page 4)

Old Japanese Matchbox label with girls on the letter R made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Advert for J. C Vickery wind screen for match box 1914
Electro-plated or polished lacquered brass, easy to use works in the must strongest winds patent match box screen. Flat silver pocket flask. 1914

Corner of Tottenham Court Road, London - Horse Buses
A fantastic postcard image showing traffic on the corner of Tottenham Court Road, London - a number of Horse Buses make the (undoubtedly rather bumpy) turn! Date: circa 1903

Old Swedish Matchbox label with Chinese writing and a Royal Crest possibly made for Kwong Tuck Yee and the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Swedish Matchbox label for the Malaysian market
Old Swedish Matchbox label with flags for the Malaysian market for Cheng Chan and Co in Penang made without phospherous Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with Whooping Cranes made in Osaka in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Greetings card in the shape of a box of matches
Greetings card in the shape of a box of Bryant & May special safety matches. Date: circa 1890s

Health, Wealth and All Prosperity. The scene of a fun evening - pipes, cigarettes and cigars have been smoked, cards have been played and ale and whiskey have been drunk! Date: circa 1909

A young bellboy lights up his Gitanes Cigarette on this charming Trade Card designed by Rene Vincent. Date: 1934

Frogs with pipes on a cutout New Year card
Frogs with pipes, a cigar, a cigarette, an ashtray and a box of matches on a cutout New Year card. circa 1890s

Patient in Bed 29 Quex Park VAD Hospital
Photograph of a patient (name unkown) in Bed 29 in C Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital during the First World War. The man has suffered a severe wound to his right hand or arm

Patriotism / Matchbox 1928
Where was your box of matches made? Is it British? Buy British goods and Keep Britain Busy. Date: 1928

Sport / Football / Specific
ASTON VILLA Vs EVERTON Semi Final replay, Aston Villa win by 2-1. Date: 1905

Christmas card with cigar and box of matches
Christmas card with a cigar in a holder and a box of matches. Date: circa 1890s

Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks out
Cartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918

Bath Characters by Edouart
Ann Arter, a fruit woman of bath (left) and Elizabeth Smith, 63 years of age, Scotch woman, soldiers widow. Sold matches for forty years

Suffragette Votes for Women Match Holder
A ceramic figure of an Old Maid suffragette painted in the colours of the W.S.P.U. She wears a Votes for Women sash and a rather sour expression. Below is the caption, A Match for Any Man

Munitions Workers WW1. Man and woman workers in Munitions factory, captioned, The only kind of matches allowed in a munition factory. Referring to safety notice on wall. Date: circa 1916

Fire safety for children -- a boy and girl playing near a wrecked car. The boy is about to strike a match near the open fuel cap

Schoolgirl cricket players, WW1
Girls at a school in Scotland playing cricket during the First World War. The Tatler suggests they are ladies we expect to see at Lords in the coming days of sex equality. Date: 1915

Scout producing fire, Australia
A scout producing fire without matches or flint in New South Wales, Australia

Cigarette box in the form of a tank, WW1
Cigarette box in the form of a tank, the sponsons to carry cigarettes and the turret to contain a box of matches. Trench Art

Sketch cover, Georges Carpentier & Gunboat Smith, 1914
Front cover of the Sketch magazine featuring a photograph of the much-publicised boxing match at Olympia between the Frenchman

Girl in fancy dress, Camborne, Cornwall
Girl in fancy dress for a carnival at Camborne, Cornwall, dressed in a matchbox costume with no more strikes written, punningly, on the side

Lord Roberts funeral and football in war, WW1
A Voice That is Still, And Ears Which Are Still Deaf. A page in the Tatler criticising the continued attendance at football matches of thousands of young

Captain Leslie Cheape playing polo against America, 1914
Captain Leslie St. Clair Cheape (1882-1916), British soldier and polo player dubbed, Englands greatest polo player pictured playing his part in the England victory over America in the International

Tennis and flirting, 1916
Illustration by Annie Fish to accompany the Tatlers gossip column, The Letters of Eve, showing a lady arriving on a tennis court fully garbed and ready for a game

Englands victory over America in polo, 1914
Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting the famous victory of the British polo team over the Americans at Meadowbrook in the International Polo Trophy - also known as the Westchester Cup

Davis Cup doubles match, Wildings last
The last competitive lawn tennis match played by Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and four times Wimbledon Champion (1910-1913)

Anthony Wilding at Wimbledon in 1913
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand born tennis player and Wimbledon champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 pictured playing on court and defeating M. E

Anthony Wilding playing tennis at Cannes
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding, New Zealand tennis player pictured playing a game on the Cannes Club Courts in 1911. Won Wimbledon four times in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913

Match box with wind screen, World War One
A combined silver match box and wind screen, a novelty but nevertheless extremely useful to men at the front and available from Charles Packer and Co of Regent Street, London

The new game of push ball
A new game introduced from America played at Headingley, Leeds, involving the pushing and rolling of a huge ball measuring 18 feet in circumference and with rules similar to football

Davis Cup Players
The Davis Cup Tennis Tournament in Paris, France : (left to right) : John VAN RYN Wilmer ALLISON, Jean BOROTRA, and Henri COCHET. Date: late 1920s

Russian itinerant street peddlar / vendor. Date: 1902

Hennen & Wadhams marriage Feb 1911

Pixies dancing

Valentines Postcard - Matchless Valentine
Cupid strikes a match of love, casting his spell on two sweethearts... Though you may set these all alight, My heart is safe you know; For that has been aflame for you Sweetheart, long long ago

Still life. Tobacco, pipe & matches
From a magazine illustration 1929

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

Art Deco Cigarette Case
A stylish Art Deco cigarette case, with an ash tray and a box of matches beside it. Date: 1930s

Brighton Bowls 1950S
Is there anything so restful as a game of bowls on a beautiful day? Several matches in progress in Brighton. Date: 1950s

1905 CUP FINAL - 2
THE F.A. CUP FINAL at Crystal Palace - Aston Villa defeat Newcastle United by 2 goals to none - action at the goal mouth Date: 1905

Matchmakers filling frames with wax strands
Women working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands

Lenglen, Borotra and Lacoste playing doubles
Two pictures showing French pairs playing doubles at Wimbledon in 1925. On the left is a sartorial duo; Suzanne Lenglen in her bandeau stretching for a smash, while her partner Jean Borotra

Sketches at Wimbledon 1879
Sketches at the Championship lawn tennis match, Wimbledon by Harry Furniss. Vignettes of the final round of the tennis matches and the attending spectators

Lawn Tennis Championship matches at Wimbledon
Vignettes showing scenes at Wimbledon in 1887, including several of the fifteen year old Miss Lottie Dod serving the ball in the year she first won the Championship

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