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Michael MoranI 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."