These Bryant and May Safety Match labels were collected at a time when
I had to walk a couple of miles each day to primary school in the
sixties and slightly beyond. In those days it was socially
acceptable to smoke, spit and litter when and where it was convienient.
So I picked up the lot of discarded match boxes along the way.
The boxes were soaked in water for about a day to release the glue. The
labels are extremely thin and fragile and are now "conserved" by PVA
glueing to heavy bond paper. To this day I dont know what the 1
over 3 symbol means.