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Silver Plated Match Safe

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Silver Plated Match Safe
SOLD
90.00USD+ (20.25) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2015 Apr 18 @ 10:19UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Compliments of L. Garson & Co. One Price Clothiers, Denver Colorado. Small portable boxes made in a great variety of forms with snapshut covers to contain vestas (short matches) and keep them dry. So called after the name of one of the early makers (which was taken from the goddess Vesta, a Roman deity of fire and the hearth), they came into use around the 1830's and were produced extensively between 1890 and 1920. During this period, almost everyone carried strike anywhere matches, so they could light stoves, lanterns and other devices. Early matches were unreliable and prone to ignite from rubbing on one another or spontaneously. Accordingly, most people carried a match safe to house their matches. Wealthy people had match safes made of gold or silver, while common folk had ones made of tin or brass.

City: Denver
State: Colorado,
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FHWAC#: 27622