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On the spring theme; a matchbox label from Japan with cherry blossoms! LS have found her stamps, I have my matchbox labels in my storage. What were you collecting as a kid? Or now? I still have all my grandma´s buttons too. It´s a bit like a candybox to me! Or all the embroidery threads....mmm.
I have noticed that most mail today is bills and advertising. I miss the time when I had long nice handwritten letters to come home to after school/work. I know, the internet is fast and so, but I sometimes feel it´s to fast. Maybe the same way PP feel about fast travel? Rather train than plane, an a nice letter in my new mailbox from time to time....
In addition to LS post about Manhattan I contribute with a Russian match label: Day and Night Safety Matches.
This is the first known matchbox label produced in Japan around 1900.
It says (in swedish) "säkerhetständstickor" which means Safety Matches. Funny they use the swedish word, probably all the matches came from Sweden before they started there own production.
This one however is made in Chechoslovakia, and is a real plagiat. A swede spots the mispelling of "tändstickors". It´s made before 1940.
And yes, swedish matches are still made in Sweden.
Here is two examples of promotion for plants, which, to say the least affects the daily life of man. Some people don´t want to be without the tobacco and some don´t want to loose sugar which I connect with melatti (True, LS?).
As mom sings sometimes...
"Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar varenda dag, tänk att det finns så mycket sugar i USA!"
(translated end... sugar every day, can you believe how much sugar there is in USA!)
Now I only need a matchbox label with cacao, that's also a good plant. Not that I say that I think tobacco is great.
In response to LS stamp post about old times and travelling to America from Europe for many weeks by boat.
EH
A new topic sees the light in our blog, I have refound my collection of matchboxes and labels in our cellar and have thought for some time to share the nice old pictures. I collected when I was a teenager and the match company in Sweden gave out series of reprints of old matchbox labels. I also have a few from other countries. I don´t bother with advertising labels though.
Things we use everyday can be so anonymous or so decorated. Mostly we don´t see them at all, I had to go check what I had in my cupboard with matches, I had no idea. What do you use, that you don´t "see"?
Added: I just found out that this label was produced for Norway. There is something norwegian going on!
by EH
