question about displaying matchbooks - General Tiki

T tikibars Tiki Socialite Aku Hall, Chicago Joined: Apr 11, 2002 Posts: 2034	T tikibars Posted posted on Tue, Jan 22, 2008 10:12 AM On 2008-01-21 10:18, captnkirk wrote: I alway worry about storage of old matches. When my Dad was young a neighbor who had collected thousands of matchbooks and stored them in large steel file cabinets in his basement lost his house when his collection ignited one night. Most serious matchbook collectors remove the matches from the covers. This always seemed brutally counterintuitive to me. In ANY other field of collecting, destroying or removing part of the item is completely tabu. But matchbook collectors routinely pay big bucks for their stuff and then rip out the guts. I cringe... but I guess it saves them from stories like your dad's neighbor.

On 2008-01-21 10:18, captnkirk wrote:
I alway worry about storage of old matches. When my Dad was young a neighbor who had collected thousands of matchbooks and stored them in large steel file cabinets in his basement lost his house when his collection ignited one night.

Most serious matchbook collectors remove the matches from the covers.

This always seemed brutally counterintuitive to me.
In ANY other field of collecting, destroying or removing part of the item is completely tabu.
But matchbook collectors routinely pay big bucks for their stuff and then rip out the guts.
I cringe... but I guess it saves them from stories like your dad's neighbor.

Post #356512 by tikibars on Tue, Jan 22, 2008 10:12 AM