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Ace High Liquor Store Matchbook
Ace High Liquor Store Matchbook
Ace High Liquor Store Matchbook

Ace High Liquor Store Matchbook

Dateca. 1944
Mediumcardboard
Dimensions2 × 1 1/2 in. (5.1 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsTools, Implements & Weights
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPC2019.26.37
DescriptionThis matchbook does not contain matches. The front depicts a pin-up girl wearing a bikini top, shorts, sandals, and gardening gloves. She holds a gardening spade in her right hand. There is a basket of vegetables to her left and a sun halo around her head. On the right it says, "A BUMPER CROP." Across the fold of the matchbook it says, "liquors of all kinds." On the reverse is the following information: "ACE HIGH/LIQUOR STORE/Opposite Fairgrounds/On 66/Liquors-Beer-Wine/We Deliver-Dial 7905/6612 E. Central Ave./Albuquerque, N.M." Below the strike stip it says, "MATCH CORP. OF AMERICA ~ CHICAGO."
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