{"id":1767,"date":"2025-11-21T04:36:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:03:32","slug":"on-line-exhibitor-jesus-maria-bollo-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/2025\/11\/21\/on-line-exhibitor-jesus-maria-bollo-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda Bollo Garc\u00eda (Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exhibit : Spanish Match Industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1955 there was a joint military base of the American-Spanish army in Torrej\u00f3n de Ardoz<\/strong><\/a>, a town near Madrid. For senior military officials, the American army rented or bought (I don\u2019t know exactly which) a hotel that was located very close to the house where I lived \u2013 the Hotel Balboa.<\/p>\n

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American Bookmatch for Hotel Balboa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I had to walk past this hotel every day on my way to the Institute where I was studying, and I started noticing and then collecting the matchboxes that the soldiers threw down on the ground when they had used all the matches. These boxes came from the supermarket inside the base which sold only American products.<\/p>\n

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Some Diamond Match Company bookmatches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is how I started to acquire the wonderful series of “Circus Day”, “Homes of Great Americans”, “The Old West”, “American Folklore” and other examples from Diamond Match Company. Later, I naturally started collecting Spanish labels which became my specialism and passion, but always finding room for a few interesting items from other countries.<\/p>\n

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In 2018 I published “Los Fabricantes de Cerillas” a 2-volume illustrated book which describes the history of the Spanish Match Industry from 1834 to 1899 based on the archives of the Digital Newspaper Library of the National Library and the Historical Archive of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office.<\/p>\n

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My book, Los Fabricantes de Cerillas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At the moment I am preparing a Catalogue of the Manufacturers of Spanish matchboxes, although given the complexity of the subject and the difficulty of finding information about these manufacturers I realise that the Catalogue may never see the light of day.<\/p>\n

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Click here<\/strong><\/a> to return to the Exhibition Catalogue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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