Matchcovers are generally stored in albums or boxesīack to 1950, and actually the very end of the American's article for the quickest explanation of what's available to be collected:.Salesman's samples are not considered real covers.95% of collectors strip the matches out of matchcovers.Matchcovers are normally collected unused.The matchcover collector is termed a phillumenist.Besides connecting collectors they have an excellent page with some standards for collecting for those just starting out. In fact, it looks like the place to go if you're a matchcover collector today.
The Rathkamp Matchcover Society happens to not only still exist but came up quite high on the page when I started Googling terms like "matchcover collecting" tonight. Rosen was the most recent winner of the Outstanding Collector of the Year Award (for 1949) given out by the Rathkamp Matchcover Society to the collector who has done the most "towards improving the ideals of match-book-cover collecting, and to promote public interest." I came to find that Rosen began his collection in 1942 largely out of boredom after moving to Cincinnati where he didn't know anyone.
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 near me 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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