Match box covers (tray missing) for Sainsbury's Safety Matches. The match boxes are from the 'Sainsbury's Buildings' series, with each featuring a different image of Sainsbury's buildings.
Branches include:
Heath Street, Hampstead;
Charlton Street, Euston Road;
11 17 35 London Road & 134 Crouch End, Croydon;
18 & 19 High Road, Balham;
98 151 & 159 Queens Crescent, Haverstock Hill;
76 Chapel Street, Islington.
Boxes are labelled 'Product of Czechoslovakia'.
Sainsbury's safety matches boxes
Sainsbury's Safety Matches Box - Sainsbury's Buildings series
- Ref. No: SA/PKC/PRO/2/4/3/4/8/8
- Format: Object
- Date: [1980s]
- Level: File
- Extent: 6 items
- Access: Open
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Includes designs of packaging for Sainsbury's safety matches. A document with photocopied images of Sainsbury's matchboxes from 1962 to 1989/90 and a list of matchboxes perhaps compiled by a matchbox collector is also included (accession 1993:18). Contains material relating to the following products/designs: Sainsbury's 'Honest to Goodness Value' matchbox (c. 1960s) 'good food costs less at Sainsbury's' matchbox (c. 1960s) Sainsbury's First Grade Safety Matches 6 boxes (1963, and c. late 1960s) Sainsbury's Safety Matches 6 boxes (1977) Sainsbury's Safety Matches (with illustration of 76 Chapel Street, Islington branch) (1987)
Sainsbury's Safety matches packaging design
SA/PKC/PRO/2/4/1/8
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