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Lot 404

Group of 16 American Metal, Bakelite, and Celluloid Match S...

Estimate: $600 - $800

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Group of 16 American Metal, Bakelite, and Celluloid Match Safes. Circa 1900s. Assortment of 16 advertising match safes made of metal, celluloid, and Bakelite. Includes: Exposition Chicago 1893 Souvenir Match Safe. 1893. G. Silver (German Silver) embossed match safe commemorating the Chicago World's Fair, with an American flag on one side, and flowers tied with a ribbon on the other. ? CELLULOID SAFES: F. Westfall & Co., Milwaukee, Wis. / Milwaukee Rasps are the best. ? The Buffet / Power & McDonald, Proprietors / Baraboo, Wisconsin. ? The Austin-Western Company, Ltd. Chicago, Ill. / The largest and best line of Road Machinery in the World. ? The Security Lightening Rod Company, Burlington, WI. / Your match is herin found, but there is no match for our patented water connection for the GROUD. ? two unbranded, with portraits of women. ? METAL SAFES: Unbranded, embossed deer buck on one side, a woman on the other. Inscribed Pat. Jan. 12, 1904. ? Fred Weingart, Milwaukee, Wis., with an embossed female nude holding a mirror on one side. ? Johnson & Field Mfg. Co. Racine, Wisc. With celluloid inlaid portrait. ? Goodyear Shoe Repairing Co, Boston, MA. In the shape of a shoe. ? Schlitz, Milwaukee. ? The Diamond Match Co. litho floral design. ? BAKELITE/PLASTIC: Ferdinand Westheimer & Sons, Red Top Rye. ? [And] unbranded, book-shaped safe with cranes. ? Each approx. 2 ? x 1 ?". Expected wear from age and use, some tarnishing, denting, staining.