More lovely Japanese patriotic labels

Old Japanese labels - ways of transportation

Indias Pride - A lovely set of labels made in Austria showing the Maharaja of India

More Japanese labels with a green Swastika background

 

The Swastika in Japan

We can often see the swastika symbol in Japan. Does this mean that Japan is fascist and anti-semite? I guess that you understand that asking the question is answering it. It is true that Japan was an ally of Hitler during the second world war but it had no connections with Jewish people whatsoever (except some legends claiming that a tribe of Israelites ended up in Japan) so they didn't have any connection with the anti-semite movement.

Read more: http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/swastika.html#ixzz1rAeMMEz0

 

New Japanese labels in my collection

More beautiful antique - more than 100 years ago - Bernard Furth labels

Down on the right you can see my label

The original box (All Rights Reserved to
MatchboxLabelsUK.co.uk and to Mick Lilley)

Austria has a special place in the hierarchy of label-issuing countries. The Austrian match industry was well under way by the 1850s and ever since has issued designs of great appeal, many of the series being minor works of art in themselves. There were many successful match-makers, Furth and Pojatzi being perhaps the most famous, and the competition for various overseas markets ensured that the Austrians strove continually to make their matchbox labels as attractive as possible to the customer.

The glazed series of Furth are sought after by the world's collectors. He and other manufacturers tended to show happy, pastoral scenes with girls dancing or fashionably-dressed ladies. The Austrian Solo match company absorbed most of these independent manufacturers as long ago as 1906, but it has continued to produce varied and attractive series, often of typically English scenes.

 

(All right reserved to Bob Jacobs http://www.ravjacobs.co.uk//)

 

Hey, there is a lost naked baby angel in this baloon...!!!
I think it's name B. Furth

More amazing labels from Japan out of my collection

Bats (Vampires)

 

A strange game

 

A sea fish



Some clever Monkeys...



Another beautiful patriotic Japanese label

A nice gallery of Japanese Woodblock Prints matchbox covers from the collection of Gary and Janet Christenson

All right reserved to Gary and Janet Christenson

http://www.miniaturejapaneseprints.com/id6.html 

More old labels made in Czechoslovakia

Old Adalbert Vojtech Scheinost, Schuttenhofen (Susice) labels made in Czechoslovakia made for the Chinese market of the late 19th century

 

 

 

 

Vojtech Scheinost – the founder of Czech match-manufacturing 

http://www.pap.cz/en/company-profile/history-tradition-of-manufacturing.htm

Important people of old times - old labels from Austria

More old Royalty labels made in Czechoslovakia, Austria and Sweden

Antique and beautiful Austrian Bernard Furth's labels

Some nice old labels from Sweden

Nice old Elephant labels

Hunting dogs double label

more than 100 years old labels

Wajang labels

Pretty women of the 19th