1920s Pontchartrain Beach Feature 2-COMB Match Book--New Orleans LA

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1920s Pontchartrain Beach Feature 2-COMB Match Book--New Orleans LA (fea4231) This two-comb (two rows of identical match sticks) Lion Feature match book is from Pontchartrain Beach, showing a women wearing a one-piece red bathing suit and diving into the water. The saddle reads: Dip and Keep Cool. The back panel shows the female swimmer sitting under a tree and possibly scratching her ankle. Pontchartrain Beach, playground of New Orleans. The inside (last image) says: Pontchartrain Beach Offers - New Orleans - Best Bathing - Mammoth Seawall - Paved Roads - Cool Breezes. The contoured sticks each display a female swimmer in a one-piece red bathing suit. (From Google (briefly): Pontchartrain Beach was an amusement park located in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. It was founded by Harry J. Batt Sr. and later managed by his son, Harry J. Batt Jr. It opened in 1928, across Bayou St. John from an existing amusement resort at Old Spanish Fort. Pontchartrain Beach's original location is the present-day lakefront neighborhood of Lake Terrace. In the early 1930s, subsequent to the construction of a seawall extending from West End to the Industrial Canal that created a new shoreline for Lake Pontchartrain, Pontchartrain Beach was moved to a new location at the lake end of Elysian Fields Avenue, a location formerly offshore of Milneburg .) [From the AMCC WebSite: Feature -- A Lion Match Co. trademark for a match book containing wide match sticks that were printed with lettering, designs or a combination of both (not to be confused with printed sticks). The standard 30-stick size matchcover held 21 wide stick feature match sticks (referred to as 21-Feature) while the 20-stick size matchcover held 15 wide match sticks. Introduced September 1930. It is generally understood that Lion Features with two combs, were the earliest, probably dating from the mid-1930s. In 35 years of collecting, I've only seen five 2-comb Features. They are very scarce. ] This two-comb Lion Feature Match Co. match book is MINT & UNSTRUCK with all the contoured matches retained. You are viewing both sides and the inside/sticks of the ONE Lion Feature match book in this sale. Difficult to date exactly, but it is probably from the late 1920s or early 1930s. (Note: On the image showing the sticks, the match book was held down by a piece of glass, therefore you see two edges on either side of the stick. They are not part of the match book.) This sale meets the new high resolution eBay listing standards scheduled for July 1, 2013. If you like what you see but have difficulty with the asking price - MAKE AN OFFER! ---- KEY WORDS: matches, matchcovers, match covers, matchcover, match cover, match books, matchbooks, match book, matchbook, matchbox, matchboxes, match box, match boxes, pullquick, pull quick, pullquickie, pull quickie, front striker frontstriker, back striker, backstriker, sked, schedule, match holder, grip, slide Another listing from the American Matchcover Collecting Club (AMCC)STANDARD TERMS : (revised and posted May 2, 2013)1. Payment for this item is due within 3 days via PayPal, UNLESS YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUY FROM US AGAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 10 DAYS. 2. If further buying is in your immediate future (10 day to two weeks) do not pay for each item separately, but let us know when you are finished and we will send you a COMBINED invoice with a lower shipping cost. For these bidders, a DAILY invoice is sent for bookkeeping purposes only.3. Disclosure: We try to describe our items as honestly as possible. If there is a problem with your purchase, please contact us within 3 days of receipt of merchandise. We strive for customer satisfaction.4. Winning Bidders & Customers: It is your responsibility to insure that our seller's e-mail address is added to your address book or e-mail safe list; otherwise, you may not receive important sales/payment information from us, an invoice for which is sent the morning after the auction or fixed price s... read more

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