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122: 231: 171: 25: 210:. The words, derived from Greek phil- + Latin lumen- , were introduced by the British collector Marjorie S. Evans in 1943 (who later became president of the British Matchbox Label & Booklet Society, now renamed the British Matchbox Label and Bookmatch Society). These two forms have been adopted by many other languages, e.g., 242:
Collecting of matchbox labels emerged together with matches. In some collections it is possible to find labels from chemical matches, produced from 1810 to 1815—long before the modern matches arrived. Quite often people who went abroad brought back matchboxes as souvenirs from other countries. After
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a lot of match factories worked in close contact with local phillumenists, issuing special non-advertising sets. The hobby became especially widespread from the 1960s through the 1980s. Widespread introduction of bulky (for collectors) cardboard matchboxes with less distinct images on them, much
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poorer quality of print and, also some social phenomena, made this hobby (like many others, not connected with commerce) much less engaged.
432: 108: 261: 46: 406: 89: 61: 42: 268:, Jose Manuel Pereira published a series of albums to catalog and display matchbox collections called "Phillalbum". 68: 75: 35: 465: 121: 460: 57: 491: 198:. It usually has a coarse striking surface on one edge for lighting the matches contained inside. 496: 400: 282: 230: 170: 428: 501: 357: 82: 333: 312: 235: 175: 485: 244: 294: 277: 24: 187: 153: 141: 308: 288: 149: 302: 265: 165: 470: 455: 257: 229: 195: 169: 145: 137: 120: 298: 191: 18: 476: 450: 425:
Close Cover Before Striking: The Golden Age of Matchbook Art
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and other objects related to mail and postal services
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Steele, H. Thomas; Hiemann, Jim; Dyer, Rod (1987).
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