The Boat Race Matches

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square matchbox by The Archivist Gallery, featuring a cat, a dog, a chicken, and a bird competing in some sort of boat race—captioned "THE BOAT RACE" in confident vintage typography. The small absurdity that defines the best British illustrated nonsense: animals doing human things, treated with proper seriousness.

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. Contains 125 natural matches in a square 110mm box. Litho printed in the UK on FSC-certified paper.

Four animals. One race. No reasonable winner.

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