Of course, the U.S. hasn't been the only country manufacturing

matches, although no other country can boast the same variety

and inventiveness. The category of "Foreign" takes in everything

that is not US-Canadian. Collectors soon learn that the world

has traditionally been split on what is available. Basically, the

New World produces matchbooks while the Old World produces

matchboxes with removable labels (as opposedto Western boxes,

which have the advertising printed directly on them). Thus, in much

of the rest of the world, match "label"collecting substitutes for

match"cover" collecting.

 

Foreign covers are often exotic and fascinating, though...if you

can read them! There are, no doubt, hundreds of thousands

available. Foreign Cigarette, Airline, Shipline, and Girlie issues are

especially popular here.

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