The Matchbooks

Here’s another “learn to draw!” matchbook, this one asks you to send in for a free,...

Here’s a matchbook advertising Vick’s cough drops. It’s a MATCHBOOK. The person that needs cough drops probably smokes. Why not quit the cancer sticks and nip that cough in the bud?

At some point they got rid of this mascot. Let’s face it, he looks clumsy. I think he was supposed to be built like a brick shithouse, but it didn’t translate well.

Spanish Matches say “Fosforera Espanola” on the saddle. Literally, “Spanish Matches” or, “Spanish Phosphorus”. Same thing.

OK, life insurance companies aren’t giving out free guns. Would you believe, a fire insurance company giving out free matches?

I was just a tot when they produced these whimsical “Sex! Sex! and more Sex!” book matches. I am not sure what the deal is, maybe if I owned a dingy beer joint back in the day, when everybody smoked, it would be fun to put these on the cigarette machine.

Most book matches sported advertising, but there are some that were sold at the grocery store, often with a series of images on a theme; such as these from the “old timepieces” set. OMG that thing with the bird!