Governance Rule changes approved on 7th September

An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) was held at the Northwich show on 7th September 2024, which had been called to vote on two proposed changes to the Society’s Governance Rules. The details of these proposals, and notice of the EGM, was published in the August magazine. The two Rules affected are Rule 19 and Rule 25.

We are pleased to say that the two proposed changes were unanimously approved by the meeting and will take effect from 1st October 2024.

Shakil Huq (Bangladesh)

Exhibit : Souvenir matchboxes from Bangladesh

Hello, This is Shakil Huq from Bangladesh. I am a matchbox collector and I have been collecting for a decade. 

I’m a very passionate matchbox collector. I can’t think of a day without a matchbox. I design matchboxes as well, and have designed more than five hundred matchboxes to date. 

I have my own Blog and YouTube channel about matchbox collecting, and I have also been president of the Bangladesh Matchbox Collectors Club since 2016.

I hope you like my exhibit. Thank you. 

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Kevin McCarthy (UK)

Exhibit : Japanese labels with Chinese flags

I started collecting matchboxes like many others of my generation. I certainly had some by the time I started my first school, despite the attempts of my mother to dissuade me from picking them up from the ground. But that was what you could do in those times! I could obtain some six to a dozen specimens (some admittedly in very poor condition) within a ten minute walk to the shops or school.

Over the years my interest in collecting matchbox labels has come and gone, but I seriously began collecting after school.

Despite attempting to “control” the sheer volume of my collection, it continued to grow, as did my interest in the stories behind the labels, the factories that made the matches, and researching the match industry throughout the world.

I was fortunate to meet with a fellow collector, Richard Tolson, and together we formed TM Labels, a joint collection.

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