Showing posts with label matchboxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matchboxes. Show all posts
Ephemera: Made in Sweden
Vintage Ads: Made in Sweden
Wikipedia: "The Swedes long held a virtual worldwide monopoly on safety matches, with the industry mainly situated in Jönköping, in 1903 called Jönköpings & Vulcans Tändsticksfabriks AB."
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Ephemera: Animal Alphabet Matchboxes
Fosforos Del Pirineo - Abccdario Animal (Animal Alphabet), Spain (1970s?) - matchboxes designed by Jose Maria Cruz Novillo + Olmos.
at Grain edit
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Design: More Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels
There's something special
about the graphic design of vintage Japanese matchboxes. These examples are from wackystuff's Flickr set called Cool Factor 5 (Matches).
Maraid has even more: japanese matchbox labels
Take a look at my old post too: Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels
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Related: Posts with label matchboxes
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Design: More Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels
Japanese matchbox labels - a set on Flickr
by maraid
Via Bibi's FFFFOUND!
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A few related posts:
Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Lables
Ephemera: Are you a Tiki fan?
If you are - like the eminent MrBaliHai of Eye of the Goof - a Tiki* fan, you will surely love Arkiva Tropika which is loaded with great Tiki ephemera like beautiful menus, place mats, postcards and match covers from different Tiki restaurants, bars, hotels and clubs...
Aloha!
* "Tiki culture in the United States began in 1934 with the opening of Don the Beachcomber, a Polynesian-themed bar and restaurant in Hollywood. The proprietor was Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a young man from Louisiana who had sailed throughout the South Pacific; later he legally changed his name to Donn Beach..." (continue reading the Wikipedia article)
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Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels
No, this is not my own collection. Well, that is I have collected them, from the internet. I found them in October last year and I published them here and in Musselsoppans Vänner at the time. I just think they are extraordinarily beautiful and I was sad to see that the original link to them were dead. There were many more there but I'm glad I saved this many. Enjoy.
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Design: Japanese matchboxes
Japanese matchboxes (original link is obsolete - but click here for more images from that site)
Even more, but only with elephant motives.
There's a connection with the last post. What is it?
Via Jaf Project
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