Price: 0.75 euro
Set of 3 matchbox labels from Latvia. Made in the 1950’s/1960’s.
ML Latvia
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from the Vezuvs factory in Riga. From late 50’s/early 60’s. The label says:”15 january, the all union population census. Promote a succesful census”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia with an image of the skyline of capital Riga. Label from late 50’s/early 60’s.
Skyline Riga
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia, 1959. The label says:”January begins the All Union Census. Do your best to facilitate census”.
Price: 0.25 euro
This Latvian matchbox label is made by the Kometa factory and is a promotion for a movie made in 1965.
Top of the label says:”Riga Movie Studio New Honeymoon Movie” and the bottom of the label says:”Tobago Changes Course”.
The Russian movie poster
Price: 0.50 euro
Latvian matchbox label from the Kometa matchbox factory. Late 50’s, early 60’s. The text says:”Donor Blood Saves Lifes”.
Price: 0.25 euro
Matchbox label from Latvia. Late50’s/early 60’s.
“Kometa” match factory started production in 1914. In 1992 the factory was privatized.. In the last years the factory has gone through big changes. There were reconstructed and built new production buildings and warehouses; production equipment changed to modern Swedish and German production lines. “Kometa” is now the biggest producer of matches in Latvian and Baltic states (as of 2019).
Former Kometa factory logo.
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