{"id":1770,"date":"2025-11-21T04:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:02:21","slug":"on-line-exhibitor-peter-palsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/2025\/11\/21\/on-line-exhibitor-peter-palsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter P\u00e5lsson (Sweden)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

One day when I visited a small antique shop to possibly find some coins for my newly started coin collection I instead found lots of colourful labels with animals, cars, flowers and more that turned out to be matchbox labels, the first labels I had seen up to that point. As a young student, my wallet was thin so I only bought a few that time but as soon as I had some money left over I visited the shop and in the end all the labels were mine.<\/p>\n

For several years, the labels were left lying around (approximately 200, which I thought was an incredibly large collection) until by chance I came into contact with a collector in my own hometown Trollh\u00e4ttan. He showed me his collection and told me how big the Swedish match industry had been, and on that day I became a Phillumenist. In Croydon a few years later, I got to meet several collectors with whom I am today good friends, and I had the opportunity to buy labels that I had only seen in Arne Tejder’s catalogue.<\/p>\n

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1840 wooden matchbox from Malm\u00f6, 66 \u00d7 41 \u00d7 19mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The oldest box in my collection was made in Malm\u00f6 around 1840.<\/p>\n

In Sweden there is no pure match association but only the Nordstj\u00e4rnan where you can collect everything, for me it felt a bit wrong, so in order for new and old Phillumenists around the world to be able to show off, ask questions, give answers or just see nice objects, I created a group on Facebook<\/strong> which I called Svenska Phillumenister<\/a><\/strong> and today it not only has an incredible amount of knowledge through its members but has also expanded to collectors of all of Scandinavia.<\/p>\n

You can see lots of photos of my collection on my Instagram<\/strong><\/a> page @phillumeny.made.in.sweden<\/p>\n

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