Cat Lover Matches

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square matchbox by The Archivist Gallery, featuring a ginger tabby cat sitting at the table with a sardine in front of him—captioned "CAT LOVER, SARDINES, LUXURY SAFETY MATCHES." The small storytelling humor that defines the best vintage commercial illustration: half portrait, half punchline.

From The Archivist Gallery, the London studio founded by Hayley Coghill—pulling from vintage illustration, natural history archives, and the great image traditions to make paper goods worth displaying. Designed by Louise Lockhart of The Printed Peanut, with 125 natural matches in a square 110mm box. Letterpress printed in the UK on FSC-certified paper.

Cat at the table. Sardine on the plate.

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British letterpress and luxury matches since 1996. Bold artwork, witty design, and square matchboxes too beautiful to hide in a drawer. The perfect add-on to any order — or a gift that always gets it right.

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