Matchbook - Barber Lines
A cardboard matchbook with matches inside. On the front cover, a yellow rope-style type border, and within that is a picture of a white flag with four horizontal blue stripes and a red star in the centre with the letter B flying from a flagpole. There is a strike plate on the bottom of matchbook.
A matchbook is a small paperboard folder (known as a matchcover) enclosing a quantity of matches and having a coarse striking surface on the exterior.
The folder is opened to access the matches, which are attached in a comb-like arrangement and must be torn away before use in contrast to a matchbox where the matches are loosely packed in the interior tray.
Details
Details
Strike plate on bottom with the wording "THE DIAMOND MATCH CO."
Printed on the matchbook:
Barber Lines. Close cover before striking match.
17 Battery PL NY Whitehall 4-1300
The Diamond Match Co. New York
Mr O.C. Barber founded the Diamond Match Co in Akron in 1881. In 1894, he decided to relocate his match factory from Akron to Barberton, and it became the oldest match manufacturer in the USA.
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