Match box
This is the storage box for storing brimstone matches - thin pieces of wood dipped in sulphur. The box is itself made from wood which is perhaps not the safest material as it is flammable.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 7/1916
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- woodpaint
- Common Name
- match box
- Simple Name
- match box
- Period Classification
- George IV (1820-1830); William IV (1830-1837); Victorian (1837-1901)
