Description

A glorious hoard of vintage advertising matchbooks and match boxes that reads like a time capsule of American commerce, featuring identifiable brands and establishments including Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar, Houlihan's, Marriott Inn Louisville, King Edward Cigarillos, Super Valu, Diamond Matches, Rosebuds Strike on Box Safety Matches, Piccadeli's Pub in Deli, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Golden Lights cigarettes, Peptab Tobacco, and an Eddie Murphy Beverly Hills Cop II promotional matchbook among countless others. The lot spans what appears to be several decades of collecting, with pieces ranging from single-strike booklets to full box matches, including a large Diamond Matches box with the classic red diamond logo and a Keep Away From Children safety banner. Geographically, these covers represent businesses from Louisville KY, Georgia locations including Roswell and Conyers, North Carolina, Indiana, and Florida Festival commemoratives, making this a dream find for phillumenists or advertising memorabilia collectors. Condition varies across the lot as expected with vintage ephemera, some showing heavy use and others appearing nearly pristine, with the basket in the first image containing a dense sub-grouping of open matchbooks still loaded with matches.

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