1.
GV PAN..INT..people in Exhibition
0.06

2.
SV Covers of Bryant and May
0.10

3.
CU The 'Tiger' cover, 100 years old
0.13

4.
SV Swedish representation 'Hussar' of 1960
0.19

5.
CU Old Russian covers 1900
0.23

6.
SV People selecting covers and exchanging with other collectors
0.27

7.
CU Boys looking through covers
0.30

8.
BV DITTO
0.34

9.
NEARER V..DITTO
0.38

10.
SV Two men look through collection
0.42

11.
CU Match box covers, a penny each
0.46

12.
SV PAN..of books on match boxes
0.52

13.
SV Early Italian labels
0.54

14.
PAN...of matchbox covers from Belgium
0.58

15.
CU Old Irish cover,1900
1.02

16.
CU Japanese covers 1890-1925
1.05

17.
CU Young Dutch Queen Wilhelmina 1900
1.08

18.
CU Collection from Flanders pre-1914 made for Asia
1.12

19.
GV INT..of Exhibition
1.16



Initials TDH/V/JH/ES



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Background: Collectors from all over Europe gathered at London's Bonnington Hotel Oct 2 when the British Matchbox Label and Booklet Society held their 16th annual exhibition.

The proceedings were opened by Mr Otto Linbohm of Stockholm, Sweden, a collector of international repute, owner of the largest collection in Europe - over 175,000 labels.

Schoolboys mixed with learned professors in sorting through a mass of labels priced at one penny each. Joined with one aim they were looking for a'treasure'.

Top price at a later auction was raised by a special presentation set of Hussar matches brought from Sweden by Mr Linbohm and sold for three pounds.