of chips - keychains - etc. and didn't have the time to tarry. If it had been just a small basket of matchbooks - as I more commonly encounter - I might have browsed through more of them!

This is another sad example of what was undoubtedly a great (and potentially important) collection having been dismantled and thrown to the wolves. Those matches would have been easier to review had they been categorized in some manner and left in . . . well, DO match collectors even use albums? Keep indexes of what they have collected?