I always had a passion for collection. From my childhood I collected the items such as paper money, coins, tickets but one of them I never realised the scale I did was matchboxes.
Time has changed now people has self lit gas cooktop or electric lighters which sends a spark or smokers carry gas lighters now but back in those days it was matchboxes to fire up anything. As demand was more there was more supply from more suppliers and from more suppliers came more design on matchboxes.
Cant really tell the age of the each match box but while posting the boxes I can see some of them had MRP tag of 10 paise even so can guess some of them will be as old as 1980s.
The frame contains 100 different matchboxes design which still left me with another 50-70 boxes still to be framed. The framed one are the one with old and unique designs.
Home matchboxes was definitely the king of matchboxes but all of them made some mark at some point of time.
Check out the pics of the complete collection below.
