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the poor mans museum Active Member Posts: 1650 |
posted 01-14-2008 05:59 PM
  
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gmstuff Active Member Posts: 45 |
posted 01-14-2008 08:53 PM
I started collecting matchbook covers about 10 yrs ago, around age 8. My dad helped get me into them. He would pick me up a few here and there at various swap meets hoping I would like them. Well 10 yrs, 700 matchbooks later I still like them. The best part of collecting matchbook covers, they are CHEAP. When I first started everyone would give them to me. Walking around swap meets vendors would just give them to me. Of course now I have graduated to buying them. Anybody in this the hobby with a young kid should start them on collecting matchbooks. I’ve been hooked for 10 yrs and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. They have kept me interested in the hobby and occupied at swap meets (at a young age). Along with looking for stuff for my dad at swap meets, I look for matchbooks. In most of my pictures the matchbooks still have the striker attached. The striker adds value to them. Years ago, it was part of the hobby to cut the strikers off. However, sometimes you have no choice. Sometimes the cover is just too cool to pass up, despite being a “bobtail” as it is known within the hobby. Sometimes you can still find a cover with the matches still stapled in it. My personal rule for removing the matches is: I will only remove the matches if someone has already used some of the matches. If all 10, 20, 30 or 40 matches (depending on the size) are intact, then I leave them alone. I have a showcase in our garage where I display the full books. The matchbook collecting hobby and the gas and oil hobby are so completely different. There are matchbooks that advertise anything from gas, oil or cars to soda, candy bars, machine shops, and clothes. Also as I mentioned before there are 5 basic sizes : 10 strike, 20 strike, 30 strike, 40 strike and Jumbo. All of the ones I have pictured are 20 strike. If you have any you are interested in selling let me know!! Thanks IP: Logged |
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the poor mans museum Active Member Posts: 1650 |
posted 01-14-2008 09:04 PM
Thanks for the info on matchbook collecting. I wasn't sure whether I should take the matches out or leave them in, but I like your suggestion of keeping the full ones and emptying the partial ones. I started collecting covers related to my area as an historical reference. In the process I ended up with some gas and oil from other areas and only kept them because I collect Petroliana. I would gladly swap you (or anyone else) any or all of the ones I have that are not local for any from my area which includes the towns of Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, Solvang, Ballard, Buellton, Los Alamos or Las Cruces, California (not New Mexico on those last two). I have a jar full of a variety of othr matchbooks that I will gladly send you for hosting this COTM if you will cover the shipping (and if you want them). Here are some more of mine... IP: Logged |
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gmstuff Active Member Posts: 45 |
posted 01-14-2008 09:34 PM
These are my favorites. Early Gas station scenes...
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gmstuff Active Member Posts: 45 |
posted 01-14-2008 09:36 PM
 
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Thunder II Active Member Posts: 1675 |
posted 01-14-2008 09:43 PM
This is about all that I have in the way of matchbooks.... IP: Logged |
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the poor mans museum Active Member Posts: 1650 |
posted 01-15-2008 09:11 PM
This one is for you Thunder! IP: Logged |
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Thunder II Active Member Posts: 1675 |
posted 01-15-2008 10:49 PM
Thats my brother Curt for you! Thanks Curt... IP: Logged |
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mapper Active Member Posts: 65 |
posted 01-16-2008 09:25 AM
A few from the collection of my dad! IP: Logged |
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mapper Active Member Posts: 65 |
posted 01-16-2008 09:28 AM
a few more! IP: Logged |
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mapper Active Member Posts: 65 |
posted 01-16-2008 09:29 AM
even more! IP: Logged |
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mapper Active Member Posts: 65 |
posted 01-16-2008 09:32 AM
Being a Pure collector, he has a lot of these! IP: Logged |
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mapper Active Member Posts: 65 |
posted 01-16-2008 09:33 AM
and lastly, a couple of my favorites. Notice that the matches are actually gas pumps! [This message has been edited by mapper (edited 01-16-2008).] IP: Logged |
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Maps for the memories Active Member Posts: 117 |
posted 01-16-2008 01:34 PM
Nice Pure matchbooks. About the Rocket--was that from the west coast chain, or the Wisconsin chain? Here's part of my meager collection.  IP: Logged |
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mapper Active Member Posts: 65 |
posted 01-16-2008 05:53 PM
I'm guessing it was the Wisconsin chain. I only say that because we bought it at the Columbus show from a guy who had a huge box of NOS matchbooks. Unfortunately, there isn't any other indication which chain it is. I hadn't realized that there was a Wisconsin chain of Rocket stations...great name! Alan IP: Logged |
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