BULLETIN PRESIDENT TREASURER EDITOR John Bachochin Loren Moore Mike Prero 15731 S. 4210 Rd., POB 1181 12659 Eckard Way Claremore, OK 74017 Roseville, CA 95678 Auburn,CA 95603 918-342-0710 916-783-6822 530-906-4705 No. 366 Dues due April 1st July 2015 by Mike Prero Ace Match Corp. - 1936-dissolved 1957, but listed. production stopped long before that; I’ve never even seen one of these covers! Atlas Match Co. - 1932-1937 (not related to current Texas company); 114 currently listed. Acme Match Corp. - 1920s-1931; originally Acme Match Co. Very rare; only 23 are currently listed. Blot-R-Match - Union Match Co. trademark; 1928 Also look for Acme Quality (footer). -1938; 117 currently listed. Acorn Match Co. - 1920s; very rare; 4 currently Book Match Co. - 1929-1933; 105 currently listed. listed. Advertizit Match Co - 1938-1940; 447 currently Chapman Match Co. - c.1930s-c.1940s; 181 listed. covers currently listed. American Match Co. - 1920s-1930s. This is the Cincinnati Match Co. - c.1940s; 9 currently listed original, not the later, similarly named, company. 81 currently listed; also look for Safety First (footer; 8 Circle Match Co. - c.1920s; 3 currently listed. currently listed) and American Quality (footer; 37 currently listed). Cleveland Match Co. c.1920s; I haven’t seen any. Approved Match No. 7 - 1910-1916; early Diamond Clover Farm Quality - c. 1935; rare Diamond manumark; 34 currently listed...Good luck! footer; few known. I’ve only seen one. Art Match Co. - 1920s-1935; 52 currently listed. Coast Book Match Co. - c.1920s; 45 currently Also look for Art Match Quality (footer; 11 listed. currently listed) and Safety First (footer; 12 listed). Colgate - 1930s; Diamond covers designed by Atlantic Match Co. - early 1930s-1937; 26 currently Wm. Colgate. These are Group I covers—old, No. 366 SIERRA-DIABLO BULLETIN-July 2015 Page 2 difficult to obtain, and always in demand. trademark made by Lion; 97 currently listed. Collegiate Match Co. - 1920s; few known. Group I - 1930s Diamond sets w/no advertising; highly regarded, much sought-after; at least 1,500 Columbia Match Co. - 1915-1930s; not related to covers exist. later OH company; 93 XL currently listed. Hamilton Match Co. - 1939-1946; 42 currently Continental Match Co. - 1936-1944; not the later listed (may be a subsidiary of General Match Co.). Lion subsidiary; 19 covers currently listed. Hellman Match Co. - 1933-1934; 17 currently Crown Match Co. - 1933-1942; one of the great listed. classics of the industry; very highly sought-after; 3,223 covers currently listed. Hercules Match Co. - Pre-War; 9 currently listed. Also look for Safety First and Hercules Match Diamond Match Co - Look for: Safety First (1915- footers. 1918; footer; 372 listed); Diamond Match (1920- 1923; footer; 78 currently listed); Diamond Quality Imprint Book Match Co. - c.1930s; 29 covers (1923-1935; footer; best known of the great classics; currently listed. 4,014 currently listed) Jersey Match Co. - 1935-1948; well-known, Douglas - early 1940s; appears as a manumark, but highly sought-after; 732 currently listed; most are it’s unclear if this was a match company; 75 currently Safety First. listed. King Midas Match Co. - c.1939-c.1944; another Eddy Match Co. - Look for Eddy Quality (1930s; well-known, much sought-after oldie; 916 covers footer; 128 currently listed). currently listed. Empire Book Match Co./Empire Match Co - Lion Match Co. - Look for Safety First (1922- (1920s-1930s. 24 currently listed). Also look for: 1928; footer; 837 covers currently listed). Empire Quality (1920s-1930s; footer; 10 currently listed); Empress Quality (1930s; footer; 1 currently Magna Match Co. - Look for Magna Quality listed; unclear if this is an Empire cover). (1920s; footer; few are known/none are listed). Federal Match Co. - 1923-1942 (later Federal Match Manhattan Match Co. - 1936-c.1944; most are Corp.); one of the best known and most popular types Safety First (footer); 369 currently listed. of oldies; 3,585 currently listed. McGill Match Co. - 1910s; 1 known (earliest Florida Match Co. - ?-1936; 4 currently listed. known dated Political cover)....Dream on! Gem Match Co. - c.1935-c.1941; 208 covers Merit Match Co. - c.1941-c.1946; most are currently listed. Safety First (footer); 39 covers currently listed. General Match Co. - 1890-c.1951; 186 covers Michigan Match Co. - Pre-War; 36 covers currently listed. currently listed. Gopher Match Co. - c. late 1920s; 26 currently Midget - 1934-1943; Lion trademark for its small listed (possibly a lion subsidiary). covers. Highly sought-after; 9,011 currently known. Green Hat - 1926-c.1927; Albert Pick Hotels No. 366 SIERRA-DIABLO BULLETIN-July 2015 Page 3 National Match Co. - 1912-1942; 32 covers I’ve stuck almost exclusively to manumarks and currently listed. footers, here; there’s just not enough space to discuss everything. I haven’t really discussed old Ohio Match Co. - Look for For Safety (1920s- boxes or rare sets, for example, but the above 1930s; footer; 86 currently listed); Ohio ws (2,208 covers are just about all the ones you would have listed) and the ―tall‖ or ―xtra-long‖ size; 175 any hopes of ever running across. currently listed. Values? There are no set values. If you want to Owname Products Corp. - 1925-1940s. Look for buy or sell, prices depend entirely on who happens Owname on inside of cover; 362 currently listed. to be willing to pay what at one specific point in time. Today, you might be able to find someone Patented Sept. 27, 1892 - 1896-1909; manumark; who would pay $20 for that Pre-War Navy Ship earliest Diamond matchbooks; a few are known. cover...tomorrow you might not find anyone willing to buy it for $10. The current parameters of Republic Match Co. - c. 1939-1944; not related to the market are .01 cent to $4,001 (the price for the later Texas company; 36 covers currently listed. Washington Crisps matchbook). Most of the covers noted here might be expected to go for a Rex Match Co. - Pre-War(?); 61 currently listed. high of a few dollars each. Royal Match Co. - Pre-War(?); 28 currently listed. Generally, of course, this older, rarer, harder-to- get, and more-in-demand material will bring Standard Match Co. - 1917-1945; 66 covers higher prices than other types of covers. And, like currently listed. everything else, prices seem to continually be increasing. Like beauty, however, value is in the Star Match Co. - 1892-1936; another one of the eye of the beholder. greats; the ―tall‖ or ―xtra-long‖ ones are the older varieties; 775 covers currently listed. Stone’s Quality - c.1920s; Diamond footer; 1 cover currently listed. Superba Quality - c.1935-c.1937; Diamond footer; 2 currently listed. Tulip Match Co. - c.1920s; 3 known. Also look for Tulip Match (c.1920s; footer). U.S. Navy Ships, Pre-War - c. 1923-1941; a category; usually worth their weight in gold! app. 1,190 currently listed. Union Match Co. - 1926-1938; 252 currently listed. Also look for: Union Match Quality (c.1927-1929; footer; 31 currently listed); Union Quality (1929- c.1934; footer; 158 currently listed). See also Blot-R- Match. Universal Match Co. - Look for: ―Tall‖ or ―xtra- long‖ varieties (1925-1930s; 744 currently listed) and Safety First (1925-1930s; 106 currently listed). No. 366 SIERRA-DIABLO BULLETIN-July 2015 Page 4 numbers. Availability of these covers refers to how easy, or, in this case, how difficult, are they are to procure today. Although one occasionally hears a complaint or A ―treasure,‖ I suppose, is anything you come two from newer collectors that the ―old-timers‖ are across that you can add to your collection; it could sitting on their old covers, refusing to part with them, be any cover in any category, depending what the and thus making it next to impossible for the people particular focus of the collector in question coming into the hobby to collect such gems, happens to be, but ―treasure‖ for the undoubtedly the vast majority of what’s still available paleophillumenist only means one thing....OLD! is still in the hands of the population at large (i.e., non -collectors). That means that the really gung-ho Of course, ―old‖ is relative, but the world of paleophillumenist is going to go out into the Paleophillumeny, with a few notable exceptions, community and search for these treasures, rather than centers around a relatively small group of Pre- simply waiting for them to appear in auction lots and War covers. Some, such as Diamond Quality, trades. Federal, Crown, Star, King Midas, and the like are well-known throughout the hobby; others, A perfect example of this involves two paleo- such as Douglas, Empire, Rex, Acme, Hercules, phillumenists that I happen to know quite well: myself Hellman, Los Angeles, and perhaps a couple of and Loren Moore, CA. Now, I have been collecting dozen more types, are unknown to many these rare, old covers for a significantly larger number collectors. of years than Loren, but because Loren regularly combs flea markets, yard sales, paper shows, etc., his It’s not just ―old,‖ though, that differentiates the collection, of, say, DQs, must be at least four times covers concerning us, here. There is also larger than mine. He’s going to the main source....and RARITY! And, ―rarity,‖ one might argue, might he’s not paying auction prices, either! For the rest of also be seen to be a relative term. There are at us, who either don’t have the time or inclination to least over 5,000 DQs, for example. Can we talk similarly search, there is the ―lesser‖ about ―rare‖ and ―thousands‖ in the same breath? source...collectors.