{"id":3201,"date":"2025-12-28T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:02:02","slug":"on-line-exhibitor-roger-fennings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/2025\/12\/28\/on-line-exhibitor-roger-fennings\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Fennings (UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Exhibit : Chronology of the global match industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Roger is a lifelong collector of matchboxes. His career as musician, journalist and public relations consultant has involved extensive international travel – and enabled him to keep adding to his collection and make research visits to remote match factories.<\/p>\n

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Fascinated by the diversity of graphic design found on matchbox labels, and by the use of the matchbox as a communications mechanism, he used his personal collection as a treasure trove of knowledge from which to draw on as the basis for his 2001 book “The Book of Matchbox Labels”.<\/p>\n

Roger is a member of the British Matchbox Label and Bookmatch Society and a regular contributor to its journal Match Label News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Exhibit : Chronology of the global match industry Roger is a lifelong collector of matchboxes. His career as musician, journalist and public relations consultant has involved extensive international travel – and enabled him to keep adding to his collection and make research visits to remote match factories. Fascinated by the diversity of graphic design found […] Read more<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-line-exhibitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phillumeny.com\/johnwalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}