Matchbox Album with Labels - Redheads

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WA Match Company

Subcollections

Overview

Two soft cardboard albums with paper labels:

Item 1: 62 labels adhered to pages in an album (images of worldwide flags)
Item 2: 64 labels adhered to pages in an album (images of australian wildlife)

Historical information

A collector of matchbox labels is called a Phillumenist.

"Redheads" WA Match Co Safety Matches. Average Contents 50. Made in Australia.

This match company printed a limited edition of labels on matchboxes that were collected by enthusiasts.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2026.134

Item type

Albums

Themes

Leisure

Social History

Material

Cardboard

Paper

Inscriptions and markings

Front cover: "Your Matchbox Album"

Inside cover: "Do you know that ... recent series of matchbox labels issued in Australia have included the Melbourne Olympic Games?
Bushfire and Accident prevention slogans, Queensland centenary and, of course, the famous flags of the nations?
Match companies throughout the world issue different series from time to time?
There have even been forgeries of matchbox covers and over 500 false tops have been listed?

Do you know that ...
If you collect matchbox labels you are a Phillumenist?
Kings have collected matchbox labels?
The first matchbox label was printed in England in 1829?
Matchbox collecting is probably older than stamp collecting?
A play about label collecting, "The Yellow Swedish Label", has been staged in Perth?
There is an Australian Matchcover Collectors' Society whch publishes its own magazine?

Produced by Herbert Stone Pty Ltd, 239 Fitzgerald Street, Perth "

Contextual information

Owned by Perry C Higgins, Busselton - an avid collector of these matchbox labels.

Keywords

matchbox

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Social or spiritual significance

Last modified

Friday, 8 May, 2026

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