Comments on: Feature Matches: These Matches Should Be Featured in Anyone’s Collection

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:20:56 +0000

Hi collectors. A good place to start would be the Rathkamp Matchcover Society webpage at http://www.matchcover.org
The 75th annual convention takes place in Bethlehem Pennsylvania in August 2015.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:01:38 +0000

Hello I recently was given about 200 match books and about 30 match boxes. Where can I go to research them. Some look really old. I also have 16 NFL team match boxes.

By: trish

trish — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 05:45:38 +0000

I have several match book covers some quite dated. looking for someone in the chicago area that would be interested in buying the whole collection.

By: Jim Burnett

Jim Burnett — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:26:06 +0000

Enjoyed reading your website. I guess you could say I’m an unknowing collector. When my father passed away years ago I ended up cleaning some things out of his garage. Before and after WW II my father was a traveling salesman. He collected matchbooks from all over the country. I ended up with coffee cans full of old matches. I recently started going through them and they are great. Think my favorite was from a Hawaii theme lounge that when you open the book a girl in a grass skirt pops out! Very colorful! I’m interested in selling all of them to someone who can appreciate them. Can you give me some advice of where to go? Thank you

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:16:04 +0000

Thanks for your nice comment, Bonnie. It’s always great to hear from a fellow collector. As you can tell, we’re all over the place in our collecting interests, but advertising items have always appealed to Jim and me. I’m sure I stumbled upon feature matches early on when we were going to big collector shows, and when you mentioned having a Mr. Peanut example, it suddenly occurred to me that we do, too. Back in the 1970’s, we were heavily into collecting Planters stuff and picked up everything we could find. We also collected a lot of Coca-Cola stuff, but, alas, never came across that $1000 matchbook! However, about three years ago or so, a dealer in a local antique co-op that I frequent turned up a bunch of oddball feature matches and was pricing them at $2 and $3. I found them so intriguing that I scooped up almost every one he had. Then I checked on the value of them on eBay, and, voila!, my eyes were opened. They are the perfect collectible for people who love advertising but have limited space and a limited budget. I’m sure you get frustrated if you go to yard sales and flea markets because they don’t show up all that frequently. However, there’s never any shortage of them on eBay. Happy collecting!

By: Bonnie Schulman

Bonnie Schulman — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 19:16:35 +0000

I loved reading your website. I first started collecting feature matchbooks after having seen a vintage Coca-Cola matchbook that was selling for (are you ready for this?) $1000!
Of course, I didn’t buy that one, but I did start picking some up a few dollars. I have over 200 books, and I am always looking for more. My favorite ones are: Random House Publishing (which has 2 rows of books where you can read the titles of each book), Mr. Peanut, Sunoco, and many of the hotel books from Florida and Atlantic City. It’s such a fun hobby, always looking for that one book that you didn’t know existed!