1800s Antique Match Safe Holders Collector Reference incl Silver, Novelty & More

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Collector Bookstore
724 Delaware Street
Leavenworth, KS 66048
Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration.
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Match Holders: 100 Years of Ingenuity by: Denis Alsford
ISBN:
0887406335
Book Title:
Match Holders 100 Years of Ingenuity
Author:
Denis B. Alsford
Binding:
Soft Cover
Copyright:
1994
Pages:
192
Size:
8.5 x 11 in.
Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.
The invention of the friction match in England in the 1830s helped to improve the daily lives of people in ways frequently overlooked. Match holders made their appearance by the 1850s in nearly endless, striking variety.
Denis B. Alsford has complied fascinating historical influences, patents, marks and over 680 color photos to she light on the developments of match holders from their beginnings to their more recent forms as commonplace household items. A wide variety of match holders are depicted including pocket, "candle-in-a-box", stand-alone and wall hanging models. Paten drawings, discussions of major manufacturers, and copy from the British magazine "Punch" add dimension as well. All who are concerned with tobacco history, collecting match holders and antiques will find this book a useful reference.
Here's but a few of the many makers listed:
Reed & Barton
Rosenthal
Pairpoint
Percival & Yates
Onondaga
Noritake
Minton
Hall
Gorham
Fenton.....
and many many others!
689 illustrations
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