Meeting Auction Catalogue : April 2023
This Auction will be held at our Society Meeting on 16th April.

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Lot No. | Description |
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APR 23/1 | Stock album of 103 labels and 37 packets mainly mint from Sweden Sirius Factory |
APR 23/2 | Album – 695 Swiss Booklets in 49 sets |
APR 23/3 | Album – 251 Canadian booklets featuring TV & Radio |
APR 23/4 | Album – 396 Canadian booklets featuring cars |
APR 23/5 | Album – 600+ Canadian booklets mainly in sets |
APR 23/6 | Album – Dutch Molen Lucifer Windmill labels 35 sets |
APR 23/7 | Bryant & May Martini N size Booklets 172 different good clean pieces |
APR 23/8 | Egypt Match Co and Nile Match Co total 82 items Booklets, skillets, wrappers, Wholesale price list, sale leaflets, etc. |
APR 23/9 | Canadian Booklets all good different 1600 advertising and 170 Canadian Pacific |
APR 23/10 | Australia complete sets folder of 28 different and 28 duplicate sets |
APR 23/11 | Tetley Pub boxes 8 sets of 24 complete unstruck empty |
APR 23/12 | Folder of Bryant & May Match and non match promotional material 1980s-1990s |
APR 23/13 | Album of Match Corp, Maryland, Patent, D B Bean, Superior, Union Booklets |
APR 23/14 | 2 Albums of Diamond Match Bookmatches |
APR 23/15 | Album of Sheraton hotel Bookmatches |
APR 23/16 | Folder of skillets and full matchboxes |
APR 23/17 | Bag of long Bookmatches and Printers Sheets |
APR 23/18 | Booklets many hundreds mostly US 1960s/1970s various factories banks, hotels etc. |
APR 23/19 | 2 catalogues Solstickan 60 years Jubileum and Dutch sets 1945-1991 + a few skillets and boxes |
APR 23/20 | Huge amount of modern Chinese sets many hundreds if not thousands of labels |
APR 23/21 | Thousands of Worldwide labels and packets: Belgian, Dutch, German, Poland, Israel, Russia, India, Finland, Far East, etc. (no Swedish) |
APR 23/22 | Many hundreds of Old Swedish labels and packets including sets from Anneberg, Jonkoping, etc some duplication |
APR 23/23 | 4000+ Worldwide labels including many sets |
APR 23/24 | Album of 1000 Czech Boulden labels |
APR 23/25 | Album of about 100 Old GB labels |
APR 23/26 | Selection of 108 Executive Match co labels |
APR 23/27 | Selection of advertising literature Bouldens and Spero |
APR 23/28 | Album of labels – China, Hong Kong & Macau, India, Japan, Malaya, Thailand |
APR 23/29 | Bryant & May “Robbie Burns” Packet Label 68×110 mm |
APR 23/30 | Belgium: English written A&B 231 labels, 4 ARTBs, 25 packets, 1 gross + Van der Plank – Grammont catalogue |
APR 23/31 | Belgium English speaking C&D: 252 singles, 1 packet and 1 Gross labels |
APR 23/32 | GB Anglia Match – 48 different single labels |
APR 23/33 | Old GB 15 singles, ARTBS and Panels: J H Hunt, Octavius Hunt, Moreland, Morgan, Midland, Martin Harris, Bryant & May |
APR 23/34 | Album of Sovereign and Shaped Bookmatches |
APR 23/35 | Album of French hotel Bookmatches |
APR 23/36 | Album of Medical related Bookmatches |
APR 23/37 | Album of British Cafes, Restaurants, Hotels Bookmatches |
APR 23/38 | Album of Bookmatches for London Eateries |
APR 23/39 | 5,000-10,000 Worldwide labels |
APR 23/40 | 6 albums of GB and European labels |
APR 23/41 | 1000+ GB and European skillets |
APR 23/42 | Large box of about 1000 matchboxes |
APR 23/43 | 3 albums of British Bookmatches |
APR 23/44 | Russia Presentation Set 16+1 Cargo Ships and Ports? (Empty Boxes) |
APR 23/45 | India Wimco 200+ labels, packets and skillets. Many pre-war and wartime |
APR 23/46 | Portugal 238 labels and skillets, singles (some pre-war), sets and part sets |
APR 23/47 | Album of Japan post war labels, artbs and skillets including many sets |
APR 23/48 | Album 100+ “Foreign Made” Boulden labels 1969-1971 |
APR 23/49 | 34 ZOR UK Skillets including Strikes |
APR 23/50 | Venture Matches of Lancashire: Skillets and Bookmatches: Transport, Tourism |
APR 23/51 | Wiltshire Match Belgian labels set of 100 Models + packet labels + photo cards |
APR 23/52 | Wiltshire Match sets: Royal Wedding both series, British Insects, Boys Brigade, Minnie Mills (labels on skillet base)+ ephemera, price lists etc. |
APR 23/53 | Wessex Match skillets including Natural Trust and Vernon Match: 2 sets of 6 labels “Rainhill Trials” set and “Rainhill Trails” set (one set incorrectly spelt) |
APR 23/54 | Album of French Skillets 100+ |
APR 23/55 | Album of French labels about 200 |
APR 23/56 | Large Mersey Match Wrapper |
APR 23/57 | Album of alcoholic related skillets 100+ |
APR 23/58 | Album of alcoholic related Bookmatches |
The following Lots did not appear in the April MLN because they arrived after the copy date | |
APR 23/59 | Ring binder of mostly mint labels, collected in early 1960’s by Mr J BALCHIN of Guildford (BML&BS 2104). Countries : Australia, Afghanistan, China, Tin Wah Match, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Macao, Siam, South Africa, Trinidad, USA, Zambia added 21st Feb |
APR 23/60 | Ring binder of mostly mint labels, collected in early 1960’s. Countries : Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, Sweden, USSR, Foreign Made added 21st Feb |
APR 23/61 | Ring binder of mostly mint labels, collected in early 1960’s. Countries : Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Ireland, England added 21st Feb |
APR 23/62 | An 8-page hand-printed leaflet about Singapore Match Industry, written in 1963 by Mrs L E FENTON of Singapore (BML&BS 2140) which contains 12 mint labels added 21st Feb |
APR 23/63 | A large lucky-dip carboard box half-full full of labels, some partially sorted into countries, plus a few whole boxes and bookmatches, collected in early 1960’s added 21st Feb |
APR 23/64 | Stock book approximately 650 labels, various countries added 25th Feb |
APR 23/65 | Stock book approximately 560 labels, various countries added 25th Feb |
APR 23/66 | Stock book approximately 340 labels, mostly foreign made, some countries added 25th Feb |
APR 23/67 | Selection of various boxes and skillets, some labels added 25th Feb |
APR 23/68 | Selection of bookmatches, different countries and sizes, Ex long inc added 25th Feb |
APR 23/69 | A bag of 330+ Worldwide skillets and panels added 4th March |
APR 23/70 | Selection of unopened novelty boxes and bookmatches + Yorkshire Matchcover Collectors Society letters including one from Buckingham Palace to Roy Hunt added 4th March |
APR 23/71 | 700+ Worldwide (but mostly B&M) bookmatches in album and bag added 4th March |
APR 23/72 | Many hundreds of labels & completes boxes & skillets Worldwide in album and bag added 4th March |
APR 23/73 | Portugal, ten different complete sets of bookmatch flats, 1960’s and 70s added 7th March |
APR 23/74 | Three different Japanese War Propaganda labels added 7th March |
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