Match box
Vestas or match holders were carried by most men during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Matches were not bought in boxes as they are today, instead you would buy them individually. You would keep your vesta in your pocket and it would keep the matches dry.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 57/1958/2
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Personal objects
- Material
- ivory or bone
- Common Name
- match box
- Simple Name
- box
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Year Low
- 1850
- Production Year High
- 1900
