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Anthony Harris (UK)

Member’s Award winner 2022

Exhibit : Anthony’s Garage

I am Anthony Harris, age 21 and have been collecting Road Transport match related items for over 10 years. All the phillumenists I have met have been supportive and I am particularly grateful to the encouragement and ongoing ‘gifts’ toward my collection that I receive from Ray Gustard, Tom Gibbard and Paul Dearie and of course my dad Rupert.

I am passionate about bicycles, motor bikes and cars, in fact all transport that travels on the road. I am a fully qualified vehicle mechanic and own a track race car as well as a road car. I have gone to many of the national race circuits of the UK as a mechanic for a racing car team that has cars in the British Touring Car Championship. When not working for Audi, I am very often fixing friends cars on my dad’s drive. It often looks more like a garage than a drive.

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Covid guidance for October 3rd meeting in London

Everyone attending the meeting on Sunday 3rd October is asked to observe the following Covid guidance, in order to comply with the Risk Assessment.

  1. Notices will be fixed to the outside of the fire door to the car park. and to the door in the lobby advising re symptoms, face covering and hand sanitising.
  2. A supply of spare masks will be available for those who arrive without.
  3. There will be up to 50 attendees, and social distancing will be observed. The age group of attendees means that most will have had two vaccinations, and some will have had a third.
  4. A one-way system will be in place, and having the fire door to the car park open will also allow for ventilation.
  5. Sanitizing sprays will be available at both doors and in the toilets.

On-line Phillumeny Exhibition 2021 is now CLOSED

Our first On-line Phillumeny Exhibition ran from 1st October to 31st October 2021 and was an unqualified success, attracting over 2000 visitors during the month. We had over 40 exciting Exhibits from members across the world, covering the whole breadth of our hobby on topics such as murder, fire, railways, tigers, postcards, and mandolins, and including a huge amount of never-before-seen material. The Award winners will be announced shortly and will go into a Permanent Gallery on our web site.

We have already started preparing for next year’s Exhibition, which will again take place in October. 

Archive – On-line Phillumeny Exhibition Catalogue 2021

Here is our Exhibition Catalogue. The Exhibits are listed in alphabetical order, click on a link below to access an Exhibit or read an Exhibitor’s biography. An asterisk indicates that the Exhibit is available in dual language.

Enjoy our Exhibition, and we encourage you to sign our Visitor Book and let us know what you think and don’t forget to vote for your favourite Exhibit.

Exhibit Exhibitor Country  
An eclectic mix Phil Stringer United Kingdom
Australian logo series Chris Hime Australia
Australian match industry David Figg Australia
Beating the breeze Phil Stringer United Kingdom
Bengal matches – a colourful story Barry Sturman Australia
British railways Tom Gibbard United Kingdom
Camera quality matchboxes Alan Downer United Kingdom
Cheapies Chris Hime Australia
Chuckmucks Pat Stevens United Kingdom
Early French matchboxes * Stephane Pinaud France
Forty years (and more) on Tom Gibbard United Kingdom
Geest Line Mike Tree United Kingdom
Happy 70th birthday – Miss Redhead Jerry Bell Australia
Hi-no-Yojin (fire prevention in Japan) * Takeshi Yokomizo Japan
Indian tin match adverts Rosemarie van der Plank United Kingdom
Italian imports to Portugal 19th century * Joel Viana de Lemos Portugal
Joe Camel R.I.P. Keith Kendall United Kingdom
Mandolins  Mike Pryor United Kingdom
Match striking postcards David Figg Australia
Match tax stamps Fernán Pacheco Costa Rica
Mr Perriman – a memory Ian Macilwain United Kingdom
Murder on Fuencarral street * Jesús María Bollo García Spain
My first collected items Derek Judd United Kingdom
No matchbox required Phil Stringer United Kingdom
Ohio Blue Tip Pauline Entwisle United Kingdom
Old Cornish mines Mike Pryor United Kingdom
Same label, different words Hans Everink Netherlands
Something unusual, different Navneet Kulkarni India
Spring loaded Phil Stringer United Kingdom
Stori Belong PNG Masis Jerry Bell Australia
Swan Vestas James Oxley-Brennan United Kingdom
The Blue Lagoon Gísli Jóhann Sigurðsson Iceland
The tigers of Malaya Badrul Hisham Jaafar Malaysia
Tōkaidō Road Jerry Bell Australia
Treasure hunter strikes lucky Alan High United Kingdom
Trench art Phil Stringer United Kingdom
Union Linz (Austria) Vladimír Steiner Czech Republic
Unique 1936 matchbox from Spain * José Ventura García Spain
When I started collecting Flemming Henningsen Denmark
Why I exhibit Jim Taylor United Kingdom
Why I started collecting Mike Pryor United Kingdom
Wildlife on matchbox labels * Detlef Zschiegner Germany
Victoria Cross labels Middleton family United Kingdom

 

Award winners announced – On-line Phillumeny Exhibition 2021

Following our successful 2021 On-line Phillumeny Exhibition, the three Award winners have now been announced and their Exhibits can be seen in our Permanent Gallery.

The Award winners are :

  • The President’s Award winner is “The Tigers of Malaya” by Badrul Hisham Jaafar
  • The Members’ Award winner is “Murder on Fuencarral Street” by Jesús María Bollo García
  • The Committee’s Award winner is “Hi-no-Yojin” by Takeshi Yokomizo

Bryant & May winter competition

Bryant & May’s winter competition runs until 17th January 2022. It is being held to celebrate the launch of their new winter packaging, and the company is giving people the chance to win a winter bundle worth up to £200 – they will give the winner a selection of hampers to choose from.

To enter the competition, people should submit their best photo of the new B&M packaging. Full details and an entry form can be found here on their website.

Sale of Royalty ephemera including matchbox labels, 12th February 2022

Cheshire Stamp Auctions will be selling a very small portion of Robin Hunt’s ephemera and memorabilia collection on 12th February 2022. The listings will become available here on their website towards the end of January. The items being auctioned include a sizeable collection of Royalty-based philately, and an extensive accumulation of Royalty-themed matchbox labels, with some very strong representation from the reigns of Victoria and Edward VII onwards.

Society AGM : information for members

This year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on Sunday 10th April during the Society Meeting in London. The agenda will be published in the April magazine, and members are invited to vote on the Resolutions.

  • If you want to make a postal vote on this year’s AGM Resolutions then click here
  • If you are unable to attend the Meeting but would like to join using Zoom the please contact us here

New book : Advertising Matches from Singapore

A new book has just been published called Striking! Advertising Matches from Singapore which can be purchased here.

With its rectangular and pocket-friendly form, matchboxes plastered with advertisements once offered an affordable and portable means of marketing for restaurants, hotels and other businesses. This collection of over 350 covers from Singapore—each reproduced true to size—captures the city-state’s colourful modernisation during the 1970s to 1990s. An accompanying essay on the history of matchbox production in Singapore along with seven curated themes reveals the many meanings and cultures emblazoned on each design.

A full review will be published in our August magazine.

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