Collectible & Vintage Matchbooks
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With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,
Who among them would try to impress you?
~Bob Dylan
Clearing my mother's home after she passed away earlier in the year I came across this matchbook. Where she got it from, or who gave it to her, or how long she had it for I don't know; but it made me smile 😀
On the inside:
Win a Half-Gallon Package of Hershey's Ice Cream
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See Hidden Letter on this Matchbook
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Save these match covers until you have all letters to spell H-E-R-S-H-E-Y-'S
Take covers to any Hershey's Ice Cream dealer and get 1/2 gallon free
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This offer expires Nov. 1st, 1952
Letter under stitch
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some guy had a bunch of them in the back of his truck at the dump - I remember going there as a young kid - it closed in 1987 - its still there (Holyoke Massachusetts) - most of the buildings have burnt down - a cool place to explore - I have a few of these to trade
This shot was originally composed on the ground glass of my Arc-Swiss 8x10 view camera. The 8x10 is my go to camera for capturing still life images. Using the 8x10 gives the ultimate resolution and clarity. With that comes overwhelming depth of field issues with smaller subjects like these matchbooks. More on that in a minute.
My collection of matchbooks quickly spilled over the sides of the 8x10 format. I’d been exploring the wider aspect ratio to convey a more expansive view. Enter the 12x20 banquet camera used from the late 1880’s until the 1960’s. The banquet camera was used to photograph large groups of people in banquet halls. Hence the name, banquet camera.
Cropping the image down to a 6x10 in the ground glass was not an option. My head was already pressing against the low ceilings in my finished basement makeshift studio. I pondered switching to a more practical format. My 5x7 was sitting there, just begging to be used. Alas, the view on the ground glass of the 8x10 was too intoxicating to overcome.
The image was composed on the ground glass of the 8x10 for the left side. A sheet of color transparency film was exposed. I then shifted the back standard of the camera to the right side to include the balance of the matchbooks. I exposed another sheet of color transparency film. I processed the transparencies using my Jobo CPP3 and sent them to be drum scanned. The two images were seamlessly stitched together in Photoshop.
The final image can be printed at a staggering size of 64”x106.5” with extreme clarity.