{"id":118,"date":"2009-06-25T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/match-boxes\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T19:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:12:20","slug":"match-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/match-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Match boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don&#8217;t know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. Most kids would be keener on what you could do with the matches &#8211; not me. It seems that the fact that there were so many designs and companies to choose from, then match boxes were extremely collectable.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"attachment_1457\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1457\" title=\"match-boxes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes.jpg\" alt=\"Match boxes\" width=\"700\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Match boxes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many of the labels started to encourage their collectableness by providing images in a series. One set i collected as a boy was of trains. While writng this i&#8217;m still looking for this set that&#8217;s lodged in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>Swan vestas were quite different to all other boxes. Different size, different in colour and pink headed long white sticks. But they stood out as very different and therefore no collection would be complete without it.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/match-boxes\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Match boxes\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes-377x300.jpg 377w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/match-boxes.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don&#8217;t know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. 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