Blue, rectangular, cardboard sleeve. The sleeve holds a cardboard drawer containing approximately wooden safety matches with brown tips. The long sides of the sleeve have abrasive surfaces to strike the matches against.
The top of the box has a yellow paper label attached to it which contains the name of the product, 'SAINSBURY'S safety matches' and features a picture of a horse and a trap which, according to the caption below it, was used in Watford in the early 1900s. According to the label, the matches were made in Czechoslovakia.
Someone has written, '41 + 2 broken' in blue pen on the bottom of the box. This appears to allude to the number of matches in the box.
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Sainsbury's safety matches box - horse and trap
- Ref. No: SA/PKC/PRO/2/4/3/4/8/2
- Format: Object
- Date: 1980s
- Level: Item
- Extent: 3 items
- Access: Open
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