I really enjoyed Collectors Weekly’s round-up of “feature matches” from the 1930s and ’40s. It’s one thing to produce a clever ad, but to make the very matches look like tiny chefs or a bottle of beer — well, that’s ingenuity.
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Ingenuity – you said it!
I once had a jar of old matches. I think it took 20 years to use them all up!
Super cool!
Did you come across these great, delicate pencil drawings that Krista Charles does on vintage matchboxes? http://lets-get-lost.com/2012/05/collections/
Yes! As a matter of fact, found them on Etsy and did a post about them a while back. She is amazing!
I love such collections.