"Engine Brand Safety Matches. Made in Sweden. Impregnated."
Originally posted on Ipernity: Engine Brand Safety Matches.
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"The Telephone Matches, special safety matches. Trade mark, made in Sweden. Average contents 60 matches per box."
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"The Motor Girl Safety Match. Made in Sweden."
A Swedish matchbox label with an early twentieth-century illustration of a "Motor Girl." She's wearing her motoring clothes -- heavy coat, gloves, hat securely tied on head -- to protect herself from cold and windy rides down dusty dirt roads in an open automobile.
For another Swedish matchbox label with a transportation theme, see Engine Brand Safety Matches.
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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, is home to Punxsutawney Phil, the famous rodent who predicts the weather on Groundhog Day, which is celebrated each year on February 2.
It's not surprising, then, that the Punxsutawny Beef and Provision Company used a Groundhog Day-themed logo. Notice that the groundhog on the matchbook cover is holding a newspaper with a "Weather For Today" headline and an umbrella.
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"Pure kettle-rendered lard, Punxsutawny Beef and Provision Company, Punxsutawny, Pa. Weather For Today. Close cover before striking."
"Groundhog Brand ham, bacon, lard, and sausages. Punxsutawny, Pa. Punxsutawny Beef and Provision Company, packers-manufacturers, beef, pork, veal, lambs, provisions. Lion Match, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa."
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"The Norge to the N. Pole. Safety matches. Made in Italy. S.A. Fabbriche Riunite Fiammiferi, Milano."
According to Wikipedia, "The Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out what many consider the first verified overflight of the North Pole on May 12, 1926. It was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America. The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer and pilot Umberto Nobile and American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who along with the Aero Club of Norway financed the trip." For more information, see Wikipedia's Norge (airship) article.
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