Matchbook advertising cuts of the 1920's and 1930's are represented in digital clip art form in this book selection.

D.D. Bean & Sons Co. have been manufacturing paper bookmatches since 1938. Read about their history, sales and facts.

Diary of forthcoming UK events, a list of collectors' clubs worldwide and a fascinating article about the Norwegian match industry before 1900.

Links to matchbook collecting resources are compiled by the Info Service.

Learn how friction and safety matches work and what they are made of from this encyclopedia article devoted to the subject.

English translation of this history of the Norwegian match industry includes inventions, production, chemicals, and work force.

Introductory guide to the hobby of collecting promises to present more of the railroad themed collection and phillumenic resource links.

Fascinating article which credits the cast of the Mendelson Opera Company with creating the earliest commercial advertising matchbooks in 1895.

Hobbymaster details the different categories of matchbooks for beginning collectors to acquaint themselves with.