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From a financial standpoint, Phillumeny is in general a very poor cousin to Philately (stamp collecting).  Consequently there is usually very little value to the majority of matchboxes collected today.

If you have recently been given any matchboxes as a result of a will or a bereavement, and they are made of cardboard, then it is likely that they are less than 30 years old and as such have no real commercial value.

Often,  matchboxes over a hundred years old are only worth 20 or 30 pence each.  This is because so many of them were made and were collected.  At the turn of the last century (1900) collectors could write to the manufacturers who were only too pleased to send samples of the boxes.

However, notwithstanding that, there is always a home somewhere for every matchbox, label or cover  and where copies are already held, a home somewhere else can always be found.

The biggest problem for genuine collectors is that people who inherit small collections or even just the odd couple of dozen boxes either think they are worth a fortune or that they are totally worthless.  

Another problem is that collections are subjective.  That is to say what decides what is a collection?  Is it the number of boxes, or is it because all the boxes/labels are based on a theme?   Genuinely, there is no real answer.

I personally have around 150,000 labels and probably another 20,000 duplicates.  However, as far as I am concerned, the duplicates are not a collection even though there are over 20,000 of them.   This is because I already have them within my own 150,000 label collection.  Therefore, even though some of the labels may be quite valuable, in principal to me, they are valueless as,  I already have copies of them. 

Q.  Do you have any spare or duplicate labels you would care to donate?

Q.   Have you found any matchbox labels in your home that you would like to give a new home to?

Q.   Have you recently found any matchboxes/labels/covers when sorting through the personal belongings of a relative or friend and don’t know what to do with them?