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Bryant & May ‘Pearl’ safety matches, London, England, 1890-1940

1890-1940

Cigar tips

1845-1890

Collection of 85 wooden congreve matches

1840-1880

Bunch of eleven early safety matches

1855-1880
Match book, safety matches, five layers glued to cardboard cover, Pyroca patented, French, 1900-1930

Match book

1900-1930
Match, tubular length of fibre, white fibre core, green outer fibre, calibrated along its length by blobs of phosphorus, European, 1800-1880

Match, tubular length of fibre

1800-1880
5 paper matches, phosphorus tipped, rolled paper stem flattened and held together by the phosphorus head, in envelope, European, 1800-1900

5 paper matches

1800-1900
Plain envelope, rectangular containing 6 lucifer matches, pine splint ends covered in sulphur, tipped with phosphorus, English, 1828-1850

Plain envelope

1828-1850
Envelope containing strip of fusee matches, amadou fungus oblong strip divided into ten individual matches but joined at the base, phosphorus blobs at tip, made in Berlin, East Germany, 1832-1860

Envelope containing strip of fusee matches

1832-1860
3 strips of later fusees, nitre soaked cardboard with phosphorus blobs on the ends, English, 1840-1889, later type of fusee since the phosphorus has not been applied by equilateral dipping of the strip but by the application of a single blob of phosphorus covering nothing like the entire surface at the end of the match, a feature of the older fusees

3 strips of later fusees

1840-1880
Seven fusees, in two strips, one of four matches, one of three, flat cardboard divided strips, nitre soaked phosphorus tipped, by Hynam, English, 1832-1880

Seven fusees

1832-1880