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1910 Washington Crisps/Oats Matchbook
United Cereal Mills, Ltd. Co.
$7.5K US
 
The 1927 Charles Lindbergh matchbook held the record for the highest price for a matchbook at $4,000 during the 1991 Rathkamp Matchcover Society (RMS) Convention.
In September of 1994 a Washington Crisps matchbook, circa. 1910 by Diamond Match Company, sold for $4,001 becoming the most expensive matchbook in history.
No one had ever seen it before Jim Stauffer offered it for sale at the 1994 convention. Stauffer, an antique dealer and "detective," had stumbled across what could be the greatest find in the hobby in early 1994. While attending an open bid estate sale near Reading, PA, he just had a "gut feeling" that the bag of old matchbooks were worth something as soon as he saw them.
The "Licensed Match" Diamond matchbook is scarlet red, black and yellow and features George Washington's head on the front and back to advertise Washington Crisps, and Washington Oats for the United Cereal Mills, Ltd. Co.
Convinced that he was on to something, Stauffer began researching the matchbook cover, the product line and the advertiser. He located old advertisements of Washington Crisps, contacted collectors who had knowledge about old covers, and looked into old records. He dated the cover to approximately 1910, and the Diamond manumark supports that date.
Armed with his research and matchbooks, he appeared at the 1994 RMS Convention, intending to surpass the 1991 record-setting price of the Lindbergh matchbook.
Immediately after the 1994 RMS convention came to an end, Stauffer sold the rare 1910 matchbook to a Reading, PA, investor/collector for a then undisclosed amount.
On September 1, 1994, that investor/collector in turn sold the matchbook to dealers Morgan Piellers and her father, Al Piellers, for $4,001. The check was cashed and paid by Meridian Bank on September 6th, 1994 moving the 84 year old Washington Crisps matchbook into the record books for 21 years as the most expensive in the world.
On July 3, 2015 the 1927 Charles Lindbergh matchbook once again claimed the title of world's most expensive matchbook within the Guinness World Records when investor/collector Kevin Saucier purchased it in Santa Ana, California for $6000.
Trasinda can now offer an astute investor/collector the exceptional opportunity to reclaim that record and hold the title of "most expensive matchbook in the world" with the Guinness World Records.
Open Offer $7,500 US
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