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Phillumeny
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Semantics
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Phillumeny means collecting match boxes and match box labels
in particular.
The word originates in "philos" (friend) and
"lumen" (light).
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How it started
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I can remember two situations in my life, which may be the foundation
of my collecting activity.
When I was young, I kept my lost milk-teeth in a
match box from Saudi-Arabia.
This box is still in my collection.
The other event was a flee market during my studies in Munich.
There I bought a
box from the former Czechoslovakia,
just because it looked so nice.
I still have this one, too.
And finally, somehow the boxes got more and more until today.
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Examples
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Credits
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Some people supported my collecting activities in special ways.
I'd like to thank them here:
- Andrea Holzner:
While I just started collecting as a student, Andrea stopped doing
so and gave parts of her collection to me.
- Trina Borenstein:
She also stopped collecting and offered her boxes in a special
internet newsgroup on "collecting".
I contacted her and in turn she really sent me a little parcel
from the US containing about 400 match booklets.
- Claudia Götz:
She gave me the collection of her grandfather, who had died.
His collection contains a lot of very old box labels.
This is probably the most valuable part of my collection.
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My parents, brothers and sister:
They regulary have match boxes from holidays or business trips for me.
- Nicola Fritzsch:
She did a litte research in the archives of
Gemi-Verlags
(publisher of two collector journals "Trödler" and "Sammler-Journal")
and found some interesting articles about phillumeny.
- Freya Akkerman:
She studies(studied?) "Museumskunde" and had to do a work
on "inventory and documentation".
She asked me about my collecting habits and in turn sent
me that part of her work covering match boxes.
I found some interesting facts about philummeny in her text.
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Links
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Here you can find further information on phillumeny:
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