People say that if you really want, you can live your whole life in a box of matches

 

Your School class

Your Mother's Kitchen

Ols wooden (one new made from cardboard) matchboxes from Romania

My first wooden matchbox from Hungary - Thanks to Mr. Avraham from "Tapuz" Israeli forum of collectors, who sent me this matchbox

Lovely old wooden matchbox from Italy which was sent to me by the special man - Mr. Jerry Manley

Italy

Old wooden matchboxes from Finland and France

Finland - thanks to my Facebook's friend Peter,
who sent me this matchbox

Finland - thanks to Avraham from "Tapuz" Israeli forum
of collectors, who sent me this matchbox.
It is made in Finland but for the danish market The text on the box is in danish. The comtesse boxes where sold in the Co-op (Brugsen) stores in Denmark in the 1960s.

France - thanks to my Facebook's friend Peter,
who sent me this matchbox

Old wooden matchboxes from South America - Thanks to my Facebook's friend Peter, who sent me theses lovely matchboxes

Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador (all made in Sweden)

New treasure from Sweden! Thanks to my Facebook's friend Peter, who sent me all theses old wooden matchboxes, and to Avraham from"Tapuz" Israeli forum of collectors who sent me the last matchbox

Södertelje Tändsticksfabrik (1871-1908)

The "RODA ROSEN" matchbox was made at Södertelje factory.

 The Södertelje labels are very beautiful and present in relatively large quantities.

 Flower and Boat motives dominate the label collection.

The most popular brands "The Red Rose" and "The Ship" are still used in labels.

In 1908 the factory in Södertelje closed

Jordbro Tändsticksfabrik (1924-1928)
The Jordbro match factory in Jönköping is the last privately
founded match factory of Sweden.  It was founded by a group in 1924.
The factory closed in 1928. Nevertheless it had a quite comprehensive sales.



AB Förenade Svenska Tändsticksfabriker (1913-1917)

The company AB Svenska Förenade Tändsticksfabriker  was founded in 1913 with Ivar Kreuger as the general manager. Later, by merging with the largest match company in Sweden, AB Jönköping-Vulcan, Svenska Tändsticks AB was founded in 1917.

Jönköpings Westra Tändsticksfabrik (1881-1971)

 The box on the top

Thanks to Avraham from "Tapuz" Israeli forum
of collectors, who sent me this lovely matchbox

Special very old BRYANT & MAY'S matchbox with Braided Cigar Lights inside

  

This matchbox is dated early 1900's or maybe earlier. According to the matchbox-labels.co.uk it is dated 1885.

According to matchboxlabelsuk.co.uk, these matches were used to light up cigars, and produced with the new method of braiding the stems, stopping the heads from falling off (with the first edition Cigar Lights, the heads would often fall off).

Old wooden matchboxes and labels from Japan - Hotels

Old wooden matchboxes from various manufacturers in Sweden

The 222 matchbox on the right was made by  
Annebergs Tändsticksfabrik (1866-1934)

Very old wooden matchboxes from various countries

USSR

USA

UK - front side

UK - Back side

India ?

Tunisie

France - one side

France - other side

Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Jamaica, Colombia

Very old wooden matchboxe from Norway (date estimated 1860-1900's) - thanks to my friend Mirek from Czech Republic who sent me this amazing box

 

The History of the Norwegian match industry

Very old wooden matchboxes (and 2 matchbooks) from Czechoslovakia - thanks to my friend Mirek from Czech Republic who sent me this amazing stuff

The box on the left side is dated 1918-1945 /
The one on the right is dated 1900's

These boxes or dated 1918-1945

1918-1945

1918-1945

Back side

Front side

Front side

Back side

1918-1945

Old wooden matchboxes from Poland, from my Facebook's friend Janusz from Poland

My first matchbox (wooden one) from D.P.R.K (Democratic People's Republic of Korea - North Korea) - thanks to my Facebook's friend Janusz from Poland

 

Kumgang - from Wikipedia

An old matchbox from China (I think it's from China...) - thanks to my Facebook's friend Janusz from Poland

An amazing Swedish website dedicated to the old swedish matchboxes labels manufactures

http://www.kuldsaar.se/

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