FANCY MATCHES, PRICE 0.04, SRI KUMARAN MATCH INDUSTRIES, KURUVIKULAM. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20^th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [11.412.006]
 

H.H.THE MAHARAJA OF NEPAUL, MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, SOLO MATCH WORKS. Colour printed matchbox label, vertical, mid-late 20th C, 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.122]

RAJA'S BIRDS. SAFETY MATCHES. PRICE RE. 0.06. ARUNAGIRI MATCH WORKS THIRUVANNAMALAI. Colour printed matchbox label, horizontal, mid-late 20^th C, 5 cm x 3.5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.308.005]

 

Vande Matram (homage to mother), 1950. Collection of Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger, Vienna. [# 123]

MANGALAM, 50’s PRICE 13 Ps., SAFETY MATCHES, CERTIFIED BY KHADI AND VILLAGE INDUSTRIES COMMISSION, MAHALINGAM MATCH WORKS, PUTHIAMPUTHUR - 628402, Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [2.128.002]

BHARAT MATA, SAFETY MATCHES, Printed matchbox labels, early-mid 20th c., 3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady Collection, New Delhi, India. [19.046.001]

Fig. 06: Halloo. Woman talking on the phone, sample calendar image, Oriental Calendar Manufacturing Company, Calcutta, 1954.

Fig. 16: Woman sitting in front of mural depicting a tiger. Poonamallee High Road, Chennai, March 2010. Photograph by the author.

Poster by Dera Sachkhand Ballan. Printer/publisher: MC Creations. Purchased from roadside stall near Dera Sachkhand Ballan. A collage of different images with Ravidas in the center, looking very much like other contemporary religious leaders. On either side of this central figure are two oval shaped insets that accommodate Sant Sarwan Dass (left) and Niranjan Dass (right).

Fig. 02: The maestro blends. An advert of Capstan cigarette, probably an exact replica of the one published in England (The Hindu, January 1947, Madras).

Fig. 13: One of the most magnificent actors of the period, Nalini Jaywant in Bharati (dir. Ramesh Saigal, 1956): an emblematic portrait in which three-fourths of the face is visible, and her hands re-frame the face.

Fig. 05: ‘Watch Out in the Deep Forest’. Fighting evildoers: Betal/The Shadow, Gabhir Bane Sabdhan (Part 2), Indrajal Comics, Times of India Publication, 27 March–2 April 1983, cover.

KISAN, IMI, INDIAN MATCH INDUSTRIES TIRUTHANGAL SAFETY MATCHES. Printed matchbox label, mid-late 20th c ,3.5 cm x 5 cm, Gautam Hemmady collection, New Delhi, India. [2.009.007]