Match Strikers & Vestas

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	Pig Match Holder / Striker MS69 Original, quality 1920's match holder in the realistic form of a pig in "Metac" a softish metal alloy in the original grey finish with hair-like detail to the body. With the original brass match bucket holder. A most unusual example is complete and in good and working order. 5" x 1.5" x 3" tall. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £89.00


	White Horse Whisky Ceramic Match Striker MS68 Original, quality circa 1900, ceramic match striker in the shape of a horseshoe with a blue crocodile skin pattern, a "Good Luck" detail to the front, two white horse logos and an upstand to take an opened matchbox. The underside is detailed with the registration number for the year 1901 and for the maker Shelly, Late Foley, England". Complete and in good and working order. 2" tall x 5" front to back. 4.25" widest. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £89.00


	Nickel Mounted Glass Match Striker / Holder MS65 Original, quality circa 1900, spherical shaped clear glass match holder / striker mounted on the original circular nickel plated plinth. Polished and lacquered, although the lacquer may be removed at no extra cost and complete and in good and working order. 3" tall. 4" diam base. Glass sphere 1.75" diam. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £68.00


	Caley's Mineral Water Match Striker MS60 Original, quality 1920's white ceramic match striker with two tone blue decoration and black transfer advertising "Caley's Table Waters" to both sides, "By Royal Warrant to H.R.H The King" at one end and "by Royal Warrant to HRH The Prince of Wales" at the other. The square shaped centrepiece has a striker surface on each side and an illustration of a female in a toga back and front. One minuscule chip to one end, otherwise complete and in good and working order. Appears unused and the first we have seen. 5" tall. 6" x 5". Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £350.00


	Advertising Stoneware Match Striker MS57 Original, quality late 19th century green glazed stoneware match striker with a saucer base to take the spent matches and a top facility to hold the matches upright with a striking outside surface. Most of all, this example has an applied glazed slab impressed for "William Gibson Glass & China Merchant Ashton-Under-Lyne". The underside is impressed "Leadless Glaze" and for the manufacturer "Lovatt Langley Mill England". All is complete and in good and working order. 3" tall. 4.25" diam. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £125.00


	Stones Ginger Wine Match Striker MS44 Original, quality late 19th century circular stoneware bar / countertop match striker in a white glazed finish with black text advertising "Stone's Ginger Wine". The underside is printed with a logo of a "Stone Ginger Wine" barrel and "Proprietors, The Finsbury Distillery Co". No chips or cracks and complete and in good order. 4" diam x 1.75" tall. Click on photo for larger and other views. Price: £135.00

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