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Non Safety matches

  • 20-05-2010 7:45pm
    #1
    bullets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know if its still legal to purchase
    non-safety matches in Ireland and where you could
    get them online? I used to buy them from the tobbaco shop
    as a teenager but they stopped selling them.

    Loved the gimick of them, and as a kid had loads of fun with them. Also in our household we had an antique match holder.
    (it was like the shell of a zippo that was designed for holding matches) would love to get a few to fill it up for show.

    ~B

    Here is a pic:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swan_vesta_matches_2008.jpg


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  • #2
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Also manufactured by Maguire & Patterson called "The Friendly match" and came in a yellow box red writing with rough sand paper on the side as opposed to the Safety Match which is what we have today.

    As kids we use to buy these by the hundreds coming up to Halloween and remove the heads and make bangers that would put Blackcats to shame.

    In Bolton St a guy in the Gym playing a friendly slipped and set off a box in his pocket, funny at the time but not for him.

    In 1975 I had a mate over from New York who was facinated by these, they were banned in the US back then. One could see the reason for banning them here.

    You can get an empty box here if you are into collecting.

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    You see the odd boxfor sale on Ebay.


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