A Collection of Twenty-Four Match Safes
19th Century and Later
of various forms and materials.
Length of longest 3 inches.
Most in overall decent, stable condition. Wear and scratches throughout consistent with age and use. Some rubbing and loss to silver-plate elements with exposed base metal, particularly on back of Violin example and on 'Schlitz' advertisement example. Lid of Chistopher Columbus example not fastened to body. Mood example's lid does not sit flush, scattered dents to lid. Rooster example with one eye replaced with a modern 'googly-eye'. Additional images available upon request.
