Vintage tin for matches of the Zwaluw brand "Säkerhets Tändstickor" since 1895

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Vintage tin for matches of the Zwaluw brand "Säkerhets Tändstickor" since 1895

• Manufacturer: Säckerhets Tandstickor
• Manufacture date: 1970 - 1980

Description
Rectangular tin for matchboxes or loose matches for lighting a wood fire of the Zwaluw brand and with four old rhymes on the side with domestic scenes, Säckerhets Tandstickor, Sweden. Swallow since 1895.

Texts on the tin (translated from Dutch)

• Anneke gets wood for the stove, and mother strokes a “Swallow”, because it is cold in the house.
• Pipe stopped no longer worried. Add a “Swallow” and Gerrit is happy again.
• Aunt Agaath just knows how to make coffee. With a “Swallow” every time. “Quality and good atmosphere”.
• In winter it is cold and bleak, cosy in front of the open fire. A “Swallow” without absenteeism then provides a good mood.

Condition
This tin for matches is in a good vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of use. Photos are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 8.1 cm.
• Length: 15.9 cm.
• Width: 7.7 cm.

A match is a tool for starting a fire. Typically, modern matches are made of small wooden sticks or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by frictional heat generated by striking the match against a suitable surface. Wooden matches are packaged in matchboxes, and paper matches are partially cut into rows and stapled into matchbooks. The coated end of a match, known as the match "head", consists of a bead of active ingredients and binder; often coloured for easier inspection. There are two main types of matches: safety matches, which can be struck only against a specially prepared surface, and strike-anywhere matches, for which any suitably frictional surface can be used. Some match-like compositions, known as electric matches, are ignited electrically rather than from friction.

The idea of creating a specially designed striking surface was developed in 1844 by the Swede Gustaf Erik Pasch. Pasch patented the use of red phosphorus on the striking surface. He found that this could ignite heads that did not need to contain white phosphorus. Johan Edvard and his younger brother Carl Frans Lundström (1823–1917) started a large-scale match industry in Jönköping, Sweden around 1847, but the improved safety match was not introduced until around 1850–55. The Lundström brothers had obtained a sample of red phosphorus matches from Arthur Albright at The Great Exhibition, held at The Crystal Palace in 1851, but had misplaced it and therefore they did not try the matches until just before the Paris Exhibition of 1855 when they found that the matches were still usable. In 1858 their company produced around 12 million matchboxes.

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