Three’s a crowd in a matchbox
What is it with matches and the number three? Always a sucker for brightly coloured bits of paper, I've managed to accumulate a small collection of matchbox labels. I like these odd little works of art that flourished for years in a seemingly unlikely niche. They are like postage stamps, I suppose, in that they had strictly utilitarian beginnings but soon became a field for fertile design imaginations. I'm often baffled as to why certain designs were chosen to decorate the outsides of matchboxes, and some are nothing short of weird. Threes. Three of them. But…