I think most of us have heard the old adage "Even a blind squirrel will find a nut, occasionally"...
I had my own; "blind squirrel" moment on Ebay last week...
I've been looking for the Veedol and Tydol "feature" matches (thanks for telling me the correct name for them, Randy)... And they seem to be fairly scarce...
Well, I ran across an auction for a "Tydol matchbook" and thought I better look at it before AL saw it...
I glanced at the first image and then passed it by... As this cover was the ugliest most "Plain Jane" cover, I think I had ever seen (or damn close to it)
What do you folks think?:
But, something kept "bugging me" to go back and really take another look at the auction... So I did...
And in that "Ugly Package" was this!
A real: "Diamond" in the rough:
Tydol used the "Engineer" logo from 1933-1936. And for it to be "un-used", well ... luckily for the world... no one had to witness; this fat man doing a "Happy Dance" when I bought the matches or when they arrived here this AM.... LOL
We've all heard it before and most of us have said it... But, the "stuff" is still out there... Now I know at times it comes in "Butt Ugly" Packages.... LOL