Dog is the man's best friend

3 more beautiful Japanese old labels with matches as a subject

Exploring History Via The Matchbook Cover - A very interesting website about the History of the Matchbooks

http://matchcoverguy.com/

 Matchbook covers, which are commonly referred to as matchcovers, not only provide us with a vehicle to be taken back to a simpler time, but they also provide us with history lessons as well.

All right reserved to Warren Barnes the operator of Matchcoverguy.com.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

2 lovely Japanese packet labels were added to my collection

An advertisement to Happy
Cigarettes (Japan - 1902)
 with the same picture
as above label

My new favorites - Japanese advertising labels dated 1930's-40's

Be careful on the streets

Playing Billiard at the Bar

Be careful on the streets

The Librarian

Just few more lovely tigers (and one bear) Japanese labels

The Bear usually represents the Russian nation...
the label speaks for itself

The Indian hunters

More Japanese labels of human professions

The bold man with the BIG shoes

The lady at the window

The drunk Sumo man with the smoker on his right hand
(Sumo style advertising for a nutritious tonic)

The fabrics painter

The Moon reader

The Frog keeper

This is a FISHY post of Japanese labels...



The Carps Rider



The Carp Parade



Which Carp shell I eat...



Save me from the crabs - move me to the other label with my shy friend



More lovely Japanese labels with Matchboxes and Matches as a subject

Watch these Trains labels - I love them!

The Japanese Musical instruments



The Musical instruments of the Far East (link)

A girl on a  peacock playing a Biwa



Let's design a new Gekkin



Gekkin

The Gekkin is the close relative of the Chinese yueqin, and nowadays the instrument is not made in Japan anymore.

The old instrument is almost the same as the yueqin : so two circles of softwood for soundboard and back, joined by a narrow strip of hardwood for the sides. It has a separate neck, with a sickle shape pegbox, ending in a decorative plate at the front with some woodcarving.
The strings are tuned with long rounded friction pegs, two on each side of the open pegbox. Bamboo strips glued to the fingerboard are used as frets, usually in a full western scale.
Sometimes on the old Japanese instruments there was special decoration or even soundholes on the soundboard.

It is played with a plectrum, but the gekkin is not often used anymore.

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2 boys hide behind a Gekkin





Did I already say that I love these cute Japanese made monkeys labels

Some new Japanese "Find the differences" items in my collection

At the Circus

The Black Clown with the red hat

The fighting babies

The woman on the eagle

The Camel and the Elephant go for a walk

The Secret Trio

An interesting story by the "Collectors Weekly" about the lovely "feature matches" of the 1930's in the USA

Playing With Matches: Sexy, Silly 1930s Ads That Went Up in Smoke

"Smoking is growing more taboo in the United States now, but back in the 1930s, cigarettes were sexy. And where there was smoke, there were matches. At one point, nearly every business in the country, whether it was a national chain or a local Mom ‘n’ Pop, produced logoed matchbooks to help their customers fuel their nicotine habit—now known to be a deadly addiction...."

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Thanks to my friend Mike De Mondo who sent me this link.