tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post8810453795529968409..comments2023-12-13T11:23:27.848-05:00Comments on Ponderings over the pond: Matchbox label of the day: LighthouseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-70602883635272314702012-07-15T17:08:53.587-04:002012-07-15T17:08:53.587-04:00Hi there! I will certainly have a look at your col...Hi there! I will certainly have a look at your collection. Thanks for commenting on our blog!EHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00275671822465334645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-36511382643229849172012-07-09T06:20:44.861-04:002012-07-09T06:20:44.861-04:00Hello, I´m from Denmark and I am collecting matchb...Hello, I´m from Denmark and I am collecting matchboxlabels, -boxes and match-related items. I have about 100,000 different in my collection from all over the world.<br />Please take a look into my collection through my website: www.tandberg.webbyen.dkPhillumenyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02781866465011824453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-45532778686606815442007-11-13T02:36:00.000-05:002007-11-13T02:36:00.000-05:00I believe my brain has a fourth setting on the swi...I believe my brain has a fourth setting on the switch, I see, I think about it long enough to make a mental note, like...<BR/><BR/>Look! MH boots are coming apart, OK but not now, have to fix it later. I don´t really study it but I still remember, especially when the brain has the same setting next time. <BR/><BR/>My thinking is that this setting is more prevalent in female mind than in male EHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00275671822465334645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-42958328249145802592007-11-12T15:50:00.000-05:002007-11-12T15:50:00.000-05:00You mean like not noticing your husband had a hair...You mean like not noticing your husband had a haircut? ;) Yes, I understood what you meant. I think one's brain has a three-way switch how we process visual input (or any input).Default and center setting is registrating but not reflecting much(I see dust), one extreme is rejection (there is no dust under the bed) and the other focused studying (Wow, so much dust there is under the bed, and what O.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00813493027866797701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-91397938142723416352007-11-12T06:29:00.000-05:002007-11-12T06:29:00.000-05:00OK, I didn´t really mean your dust under the bed b...OK, I didn´t really mean your dust under the bed but rather things you use everyday but don´t notice their design. Say for example, you have a colored teacup with a pattern. Do you see the pattern each time you use it? Probably not. We go blind with familiar things. That we go "blind" over things like dust under the bed has more to do with psychological reasons, I think. <BR/><BR/>But back to theEHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00275671822465334645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-38291536053681808392007-11-12T03:59:00.000-05:002007-11-12T03:59:00.000-05:00Forgot to answer your question, got stuck in the h...Forgot to answer your question, got stuck in the history of matches....<BR/><BR/>I think there is a trend now, let's call it the "unclutter" trend, where a lot(?) of people are fed up with the massive (unwanted) information/general input flow they are experiencing, stealing their attention all the time. I think the commercial successs of the iPods indicates this. The iPod does not try outshine O.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00813493027866797701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-47078387146213686692007-11-12T03:14:00.000-05:002007-11-12T03:14:00.000-05:00The safety match is an swedish invention from 1844...The safety match is an swedish invention from 1844(?), eliminating both the poisonous yellow phosphorous and the risk of your pants to be set on fire. ;)<BR/>Swedish match was founded as Svenska Tändsticks-aktiebolaget by the financier and industrialist Ivar Kreuger in 1917(?), then known as "the match king", but his name is nowadays more associated with his spectacular financial crash in the O.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00813493027866797701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-57417617181354984232007-11-12T02:47:00.000-05:002007-11-12T02:47:00.000-05:00I believe it´s made about 1890-1920, probably the ...I believe it´s made about 1890-1920, probably the first part of this period. I will look into it and answer with more details later.<BR/><BR/>Sweden was the largest exporter and is still I think. But maybe Swedish match is not swedish anymore....I don´t know.<BR/><BR/>There will be more info about Swedish matchboxes further on.EHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00275671822465334645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1622772963037648430.post-10533456503364020522007-11-11T21:11:00.000-05:002007-11-11T21:11:00.000-05:00Do you know when this label was made? What year o...Do you know when this label was made? What year or decade? I would like to know. I like it a lot, especially with that rugges rock and a white shiny lighthouse.<BR/><BR/>I think Sweden once was the world's largest exporter of matches.LShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135583903768049008noreply@blogger.com