Matchbox Collection

Bryant and May safety match matchbox label
Bryant and May special safety match matchbox label with prize medals and stating protection from fire and are not poisonous Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label of a cat playing with a lion made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a camel made by Tokushima-Seisuisho in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a sailing boat made by Meikousha in Hiogo (Hyogo) in Japan for the Swedish market Date: c. 1910s

Silver gilt matchbox holder, Nayler Brothers
ICONS OF THE 20th CENTURY: Duke and Duchess of Windsor Collection: A superb silver-gilt matchbox holder, Nayler Brothers, London, 1937 plain rectangular form, engraved with the cypher of Edward

Three Submarines Safety Matches, made in Germany

Call Boy Impregnated Safety Matches, average 50 matches

Still Life, They also serve who only stand and wait, WW1
Still Life, They also serve who only stand and wait - George Robinson, Special Constable. Date: circa 1916

White Star Line, RMS Olympic - Big Ship matchbox
White Star Line, RMS Olympic - Bryant and May matchbox, The Big Ship Route to United States and Canada. 2.5 inches. Date: 20th century

Girl Workers of London - The Match-Box Makers, Taking the Boxes Home. 1898

Advert for Parkins & Gotto 1895
Selection of novelty Christmas presents. 1895

A composite matchbox-ashtray made from a bullet cartridge and mounted on an 18 pounder shell case. Engraved Messines, June 7th 1917 - France and Belgium with an image in copper of a British tank

Matchbox filling 1900
R. Bell & Co, Matchbox factory located in Wandsworth, Surrey, London. Date: 1900

Matchbox making, London 1890
A woman making matchboxes at a table in her home. Date: 1890

Matchbox maker in London
A good days work A London matchbox maker surveys the pile of matchboxes she has just made. Date: 1890

MATCHBOX MAKING / EAST END
Two children watch their mother making matchboxes at the table at home in the east end of London. Date: 1896

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a crane made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label for Parrot Safety Matches made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Greetings card in the shape of a box of matches, With Kindest Greetings and all Good Wishes for your Happiness and Prosperity. Date: circa 1890s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with two women and Chinese coins made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a deer made in Yamada, Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with two birds made in Osaka, Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a boy and two dogs made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with an elephant chasing a deer made by Takashima in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a man fighting a tiger made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

The Vulcan old Japanese Matchbox label made in Kobe by NKMSK for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Swedish Matchbox label with Robber and a tiger hunting possibly for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Matchbox holder with AIF cap badge, WW1
Matchbox holder - made in Birmingham - with the Australian Imperial Force cap badge impressed upon it. On reverse, commemorating the Battle Honours of the 4th Battalion AIF

Matchbox cover with German helmet, WW1
Matchbox cover with a German Pickelhaube helmet bearing the words Gott Mit Uns (God With Us), and Souvenir de France on the side, Trench Art

Matchbox cover inscribed Gott mit Uns, WW1
German matchbox cover inscribed Gott mit Uns (God with Us), Trench Art

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a red fly made by Meirinsha in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with two swans made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a horse drawn chariot made by Kwong Tuck Yee in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a man with an elephant made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a wine jar made by Dzui Gen and Co in Kobe, Japan, free from dampness Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with three men watching chickens made in Kobe, Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a man sitting on a turtle in a pond made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a horse in a horseshoe made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a bear made by N. Kita in Hiogo (Hyogo) in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with acrobats made in Osaka in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with children playing made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a dragon made by Fong Sia Kee in Yokohama for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a winged ram made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with cherry blossom made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a cat and a dog in a hat
Old Japanese Matchbox label for best match with a cat and a dog in a hat made in Kobe, Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a red mandolin with birds made by M. Naoki in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a bat made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

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