Custom Matchbooks
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Custom Matchbooks
Available stock colors are black, blue, green, red and purple.
Matches are packed in cases of 2500 matchbooks. Minimum order is one case, or 2500 books.
The first "friction match" was invented by English chemist
John Walker in 1826. Early work had been done by Robert Boyle and his assistant, Godfrey Haukweicz[5] in the 1680s with phosphorus and sulfur, but their efforts had not produced useful results. Walker discovered a mixture of antimony(III) sulfide or stibnite, potassium chlorate, gum, and starch could be ignited by striking against any rough surface.
Walker called the matches congreves, but the process was
patented by Samuel Jones and the matches were sold as lucifer
matches. The early matches had a number of problems - the flame
was unsteady and the initial reaction was disconcertingly
violent; additionally, the odor produced by the burning match
was unpleasant. It is described as a firework odor.
Despite these problems, the new matches were responsible for a
marked increase in the number of smokers.
Lucifers reportedly could ignite explosively,
sometimes throwing sparks at a considerable distance.
In the Netherlands matches are still called lucifers.
In 1830, Frenchman Charles Sauria added white phosphorus to
remove the odor. These new matches had to be kept in an airtight
box but were popular. Unfortunately, those involved in the
manufacture of the new matches were afflicted with phossy jaw
and other bone disorders, and there was enough white phosphorus
in one pack to kill a person. There was a vociferous campaign to
ban these matches once the dangers became known.
Custom Matches
Match Books
Deuteronomy 10:1-5, 8
1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which
thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the
day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
