Collecting Watch the matchbooks you get from day to day, and you will probably find that you get: a hundred different ones during the course of a year. For matchbooks beyond your immediate reach, turn to one of our favorite magazines, Hobbies. Here you will find advertisements from dealers who sell assortments and from other collectors who want to swap them.

Every one of your friends (unless he is collecting them, too) is a source of matchbooks. Ask your friends to save them for you: they have no use for empty matchbooks, and you don't want to play with matches. A traveling friend is like a gold mine, as we discovered when a collector we know received eighty-four different matchbooks (and some duplicates) from a couple who had spent two months in Europe.

Matchbook covers take up little space, so you have room for all you can get. The best way to keep your collection is to mount the covers in a loose-leaf album. We prefer to fasten one edge of the cover to the page with a hinge like the ones used by stamp collectors. This method enables you to see both sides of the cover without removing it from the book.




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July 25, 2008