Match box
- Description
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Vestas or match holders were carried by most men during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Matches were not bought in boxes as they are today, instead you would buy them individually. You would keep your vesta in your pocket and it would keep the matches dry.
- Accession Loan No.
- 57/1958/2
- Collection Class
- Personal objects
- Common Name
- match box
- Simple Name
- box
- Full Name
- match box
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Year Low
- 1850
- Production Year High
- 1900
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Family Group
-
- Material
- ivory or bone
