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Diamond match "salesman samples"?
Posted By: Richard
Ok, I've noticed quite a bit of interest in the Diamond Match issues. They are also an interest of mine, although my own collection is rather meager at the moment. |
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Diamond match "salesman samples"?
Posted By: davidcycleback
A matchbook expert would have to explain to me why it is a salesman sample. As you noted, it might be an unfinished product. |
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Diamond match "salesman samples"?
Posted By: Michael Moran
One group to contact on any issue with match covers in general is the Rathcamp Matchcover Society - see their website at http://www.matchcover.org/index.html |
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Diamond match "salesman samples"?
Posted By: Michael Moran
I took my own advice and sent the picture of the matchbook to Robert Borton, former president of the Rathcamp Society, and here is his answer: "This is a "flat". It either came from a salesman's sample book or a deal the match companies used to have. It worked like a stamp approval book. I went to an auction 10 or so years ago that had many box lots of matchcovers among other things. Included were a bunch of flats. I asked the 80+ year owner where he got them. He told me that's how the match companies would get rid of some of their samples. You'd write the companies and ask them for some matches and that's what you got." |
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Diamond match "salesman samples"?
Posted By: Richard
I'm officially in love with this board! Nowhere else have I been able to find anyone else even interested in this stuff, let alone be able to help with my questions. |
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Diamond match "salesman samples"?
Posted By: davidcyceback
I've had the 1930s Diamond Matchbook football, hockey and baseball matchbooks and liked them all. The hockey are about identical in design than the football, while the baseball come in a variety of colors. They all seem to be gaining in popularity as time goes by. |
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Diamond match "salesman samples"?
Posted By: Richard
Found this information in an ebay auction by a LARGE seller of matchcovers. |
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