I have lots of postage stamps and a few first day covers with dandelions on them and here is a really lovely one from Jersey.
Jersey Wild Flower Definitives was published 19th July 2005 and the artist is Nick Parlett. The fabulous drawing of a dandelion doesn't appear on any of the stamps, only on the envelope and features the leaves, bud, flower and seed-head.
I do try and find out more about all the objects in the Dandelion Archive, but I cannot find any information about this match box label at all, only what is written on it:
Dandelion Safety Match made in Finland. Impregnated non-poisonous.
It's tiny (the size of a match box, obviously) and is now in the Dandelion Archive. I'll try and find out more of its history and the match company etc, but for now it remains informationless.
I've not posted anything on the Dandelion Blog for ages and ages (over a year) for a number of reasons - mainly because I've been busy with other stuff and things.
But I do keep collecting dandelion related objects and more items have been donated to the Dandelion Archive, so with a little spare time I want to update the blog...
Here is a beautiful label from a Camembert cheese box - gorgeous!
Magloire Roger was a camembert maker in the first quarter of the 20th century. According to the Camembert Museum (and google translate) "Mr. ROGER carried out his cheese business from a small Mayenne village of less than 200 inhabitants at the time, before the merger of Torcé-en-Charnie with Viviers, near the department of Sarthe."
