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Object: 003heike
Term: match box
Property of: Sébastien Hendrickx

Description
The owner was given this object in London, approximately 10 years ago, by someone he afterwards had no contact with any longer. To him the object functions as a souvenir. It paradoxically turned into a hope object because of the hopeless situation within which it was received.

Technical
Very likely origining from The Czech Republic, the object is a small and quite worn out cardboard sleeve of 1,3 cm by 4,3 cm, clasping around a cardboard drawer of 1cm by 4 cm, containing 10 used matches. The thinner surfaces of the outer sleeve are covered with sparking paper. The larger surfaces are orange colored showing the symbol of a darkbrown chicken within a white spark/star, presenting 16 spikes. Additionally the front side shows a brand label “Magic Matches Carambal Media”, the backside carries a text in Czech language, which did not make any sense after the owner had applied the google translation tool to it.

Exchange: NO