Information About

Matchcover




Collectors are know as ''philluminists'', or "lovers of light", and include people who have a shoe box or fish bowl filled with packs from local stores and restaurants, to serious collectors with covers organized in hundreds of different topics. In 2005, there were over 1800 active collectors in the The Rathcamp Matchcover Society (''The Voice of the Hobby Since 1941''), spread over 20 countries worlwide.


PATENTS

''Flexible Match'' patent, 27 September 1892 - set of 2 match combs shown enclosed folding paper match cover.


REFERENCES

  • Prero, Mike (2005). "2005 Demographics".''RMS Bulletin'' No. 512, January/February, pp. 1-4.

  • Steele, H. Thomas; Hiemann, Jim; Dyer, Rod (1987). ''Close Cover Before Striking: The Golden Age of Matchbook Art'' NY: Abbeville Press, ISBN 0-89659-659-8