They used them and threw them away, or left them behind to be swept up, and now only one man, Frank Cranston, of Rhode Island is known to have one. What they all wish they has is the Lindbergh cover.Įverybody who attended the testimonial luncheon for Lindbergh, June 15, 1927, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, got one of these match covers. It's the same-way with matchcover collectors.
They lead into these items by mentioning some of the top items from other collecting niches (a British Guinea one-cent stamp and an 1820 silver dollar for example) before stating: The article also mentions a couple of the prizes for matchcover collectors, and lo and behold, I was able to find some recent info on these items as well. You can specialize in radio stations and try for the Counter-Spy series, which is ultra you can specialize in baseball covers, and try to piece together a set of Baseball Centennials you can go in for odd sizes, called Giants, Midgets, Ten Strikes, and Royal Flashes or you can concentrate on Fraternals, which carry the imprint of The Yale Club, The Elks, or The Rotary Club of Moosup, Conn.
So I thought Sam Rosen and company might give us all a chance to take a better look at matchcover collecting from a 1950 perspective. Either way, my point is, a subject which interests me is the actual history of collecting itself. In fact I'm not sure if the collector in me craves history or if my fondness for history has led me to collect. It comes with the territory to some degree and for me it expands beyond collecting to its own interest. Us collectors tend to have a soft spot for history. Across the top of the page were several examples of the matchcovers he collects. It starts on page 42 inside of the August 1950 issue of The American and is titled "How Grownups Play With Matches."Īctually, as I copied the contents page of this issue the title did nothing for me, I mean, that could mean anything, but I try to page through all of the magazines that come through here looking for hidden treasures, and in this case it came in the form of a Sam Rosen from Brooklyn seated behind a desk stacked high with his collection while smiling with a cigar in his mouth. Today I was creating sales listings for several old back issues of The American Magazine and had the pleasure of encountering one of those rare articles which distracts me from work for a reading break.
#Matchbook collectors price guide movie
In fact, I found a couple of old archived images of a pair of movie matchbooks which will serve as illustrations for this post. Despite this fact I have sold a few, as I've run across some incidentally while dealing in both baseball and movie collectibles. I've remarked several times how I've been collecting, buying and selling across several hobbies for pretty much as long as I can remember, but there are several collecting niches where I must profess ignorance and collecting matchcovers is one of them.
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