Monday, June 23, 2014

Promotional Matchboxes - Tobacconists

A Matchbox Advertising The Tinder Box, a Chain of Tobacco Stores Founded in Santa Monica, California in 1928

A Vintage Matchbox Promoting the Now Defunct David P. Ehrlich Company (Once the Third Oldest Tobacconist in the United States) Founded in 1868 in Boston, MA

An Odd-Shaped Matchbox Advertising Nat Sherman ("Tobacconist to the World Since 1930") Located on Fifth Avenue in New York City

A Matchbox Advertising Georgetown Tobacco, Selling the Finest Cigars, Pipes, and Smoking Accessories in Washington D.C. Since 1964
A Box of Matches Promoting the Up Down Tobacco Shop Located in the Historic Old Town Neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois

A Matchbox Advertising the Cigars International Tobacco Store in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania


(Top) The Front and (Bottom) Back of a Vintage 1970's Matchbox Promoting The Pipefitter Smoke Shop of Boulder, Colorado

A Matchbox From The Owl Tobacconist Shop, a Fixture on Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts For Eighty Years

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Chinese Matches

A Box of Esse Compact Black Brand Safety Matches Manufactured in China and Distributed by Black Horse Tobacco in 2013

A Contemporary Box of Double Happiness Brand Safety Matches Made in China

A Box of Fuxing Old Brand Safety Matches Produced by the Jining City Fuxing Match Factory in Shandong Province, China

A Box of Chinese-Made Faya Brand Safety Matches