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Thank you. I did not know about "hovering"

Thank you. I had not come accross this "cutting" before. Where was it published & date? Geoge Dowler was at Great Charles Street, Birmingham 1854-1862. Then Plume Street, Aston, Birmingham 1862-1866. I knew about his match containers. Now I can see he made congreve's and wax vestas.

Thank you for all your posts. I had hoped that F.Smith was either a maker of matches or metal boxes for them. I now know that essentally they were Chemists that also traded in other products. They were surrounded by metal working workshops that could support them. This is certainly an...

The Congreve match (from around 1831) also included phosphorus, and was an improvement on the Lucifer. (Walker's Friction Lights / Lucifer's are non-phosphoric friction matches). I agree that the use of "Lucifer" was so established in England that the use of the name Congreve was little used...

I would like to put the record straight here, as much misleading information circulates on the internet. John Walker invented "friction lights" in 1826, and the first record of a sale by him was on the 7th April 1827. He stopped making them when Samual Jones and Watt's copied his formular...

Thank you. I am aware of details about David Bermingham. However, no matchbox labels seem to have been preserved. More of a mystery are details about the Birmingham Match Co. Only the attached label known.

Thank you for your details. I did not expect this level of information. So lovely to be able to add to my records these details about this "match / candle" steel container. The name F.Smith is not normally associated with matches. My "matchbox" collection started in 1966, and I like to research...

Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you. Please can you tell me the source for your dating?

I am looking for information regarding an early metal match container. It was manufactured by F. Smith 31 New Street Birmingham (probably in the 1850s ?). Help in establishing the dates of this manufacturer.