Let's sit on the ball! - Pilates labels made in Japan

Japanese Advertising Labels of old cars

Japanese labels made by M. Kosaka Hiroshima - BEFORE THE BOMB

And now for something completely different - going back in time to my original collecting hobby: SPECIAL MATCHBOXES that I f onrecent visit at Haifa's Flea Market my ound

Carlton "Like Cigarettes" matchbox

Mini Calculator that looks like a Matchbook

Naked people on Arabic matchbox?

Same box front side

Tricky Pin-Up matchbox - Open the box...
What do you see?

Feature Matches

Old matchbox made in Canary Islands - front side

Back side

Animal combinations on Japanese old labels

The Deerest family

The big Toad and the Cat

The big Butterfly and the Bats

The Dog and the Big Rabbit

The woman who olds the Rabbit with the man
with the big leaf in his hands

Two Rabitts at the field

Two more Rabitts at the field

Japanese Comic Senryū Matchbox labels dated pre WWII

 

Very cute sets of Japanese "Tobacco Match" labels made by K. Harima

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