Let's go to the match(es)

[Jolipapa]

I noticed there are beverages, books, records, pipes/cigars and blades threads, but nothing about matches.
So don't be shy and let your matches (and blades) shine!

 

[Modoc ED]

 

[waynorth]

Nice matchbook collection, JP!! (with knives!!) Collecting those is a lost occupation!! For obvious reasons!!
I can't find those "Strike Anywhere" matches, errr. . . .anywhere, Ed! Give me a hint please!!

 

[hornetguy]

Matches? We don't need no steenkin' matches!

(somebody had to misquote it..might as well be me)

We used to collect matchbooks when we were kids. Lots of fun, especially when we were on vacation...

You just don't see matchbooks much anymore. More's the pity..

 

[Peregrin]

Not so much a collection. More an accumulation that sits in a glass jar on top of the refrigerator. Used when we need to light birthday candles or such.
Snuck a couple of lighters in there. One from a bar in West Palm Beach that I don't remember. I used to travel to West Palm on business and with evenings to kill, well you know... The other my wife picked up in Paris. She went to France, I got a lighter....

 

[Txjohn]

One and only

 

[Jolipapa]

One and only View attachment 1310476

Surely a nice place!

 

[JohnDF]

 

[kamagong]

I can't find those "Strike Anywhere" matches, errr. . . .anywhere, Ed! Give me a hint please!!

The ones sold today are a pale shadow of what was previously available.

 

[Prester John]

I only have a few, but my wife has a large jar full of matchbooks. I will see what I can find and post something this weekend.

 

[kamagong]

The puukko and matchsafe are always in my pack.

 

[chuck4570]

Modoc ED you forgot the knife in your picture, like you I have some strike anywhere matches and as kamagong mentioned they pale in comparison to the old Ohio Blue Tip matches in the past, I do have a stash of those left that are vacuum sealed.

 

[Prester John]

Modoc ED you forgot the knife in your picture, like you I have some strike anywhere matches and as kamagong mentioned they pale in comparison to the old Ohio Blue Tip matches in the past, I do have a stash of those left that are vacuum sealed.
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Maybe the knife is inside the box.

 

[Frailer]

Thanks for starting this thread. When I pulled these matches from my pipe cabinet I found an old Dunhill pipe knife I’d completely forgotten about.

 

[hornetguy]

I completely forgot about a jar of matchbooks that I had picked up at various cigar stores... I guess I DO have a collection!

 

[Jack Black]

 

[Will Power]

Great idea Don't have matches to hand, or maybe none at all will root about tomorrow. But your pics reminded me of when I smoked, mainly pipe but if it were cigarettes I liked French ones: Gitanes Maís no filtre or these one that used to come from CCCP with long tubes, they reeked but tasted good.

 

[Jolipapa]

Fine box! I had forgotten those!

 

[Jack Black]

Great idea Don't have matches to hand, or maybe none at all will root about tomorrow. But your pics reminded me of when I smoked, mainly pipe but if it were cigarettes I liked French ones: Gitanes Maís no filtre or these one that used to come from CCCP with long tubes, they reeked but tasted good.

I've had cheap Russian cigarettes with tubes, but you used to be able to get 'Imperial Russian' Sobranie cigarettes here in the 70's, which had long tubes, and tasted good. A friend of mine was once smoking one on the bus (as you could smoke on them then), but he got thrown off because the conductor thought he was smoking a joint!

Fine box! I had forgotten those!

Thank you I have an older one I'll try to remember to photograph tomorrow Alain

 

[chuck4570]

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Maybe the knife is inside the box.

ever thought of that