224. LABEL BOOKS FROM JÖNKÖPING'S WESTERN MATCH FACTORY, 12 volumes.

Collection of label books and print samples from Jönköping's Västra Tändsticksfabrik's printer's archive (discontinued in the 1980s) from the period c:a 1880-1950. Collected in 5 thicker bands with consecutive numbering 1-7291 and 6 thinner ones. + 1 band containing combinations of printing inks on paper in different colours, with handwritten cover title "Colour Samples 1909. Jönköping's V. Tändsticksfabrik". Several volumes with handwritten indexes.

12 volumes in all, worn covers.

The collection contains an estimated close to 20,000 print samples, mostly labels for boxes - for both Swedish and foreign markets - but also for packaging of larger sizes, as well as cardboard sleeves for so-called advertising matches. A large number of advertising labels for large and small companies, many of which are small businesses located in the countryside, and many in multiple copies. In a couple of the earlier collections, in places the leaves have stuck together and some label samples have been damaged.

Provenance: Previous owner (the seller's father-in-law) was the print shop manager at STAB until the structural transformations and changes of ownership in the 1980s, and acquired the collection when the business was shut down.