Antique shoppers must be well-versed in the vocabulary of collectibles to read catalogs, make online searches or understand words with double meanings such as commode (dresser) and commode (toilet.) ...

Matches are becoming rare objects. Smokers today use fluid lighters, and while gas fireplaces, stoves and barbeques often have open flames, their pilot lights are carefully controlled and turn off or ...

One of my fondest memories as a kid was to sit with my grandfather on his backyard swing and watch him light his cigars with wooden matches. I seem to recall the boxes said the matches were made in ...

In the 1950s, the Delta Match Company, a subsidiary of the internationally known Swedish Match company, spent $2 million to build a wooden match factory on 35 acres of land on River Road near the ...