Last year, Dr Shubhangi Tambwekar from Bengaluru was looking for a way to preserve her daughter's matchbox collection. Her daughter, Arundhati, had died in a road accident in 2014, and Tambwekar ...

In case you haven’t noticed, giant safety "matchboxes" have been popping up around Kuala Lumpur, capturing the attention of drivers and pedestrians alike. These eye-catching urban art pieces are the ...

Gautam Hemmady began his collection on a bitingly cold January day in 2012. “It was the 6th. I remember the date. Don’t ask why.” As he walked around in Delhi to warm himself, he visited every ...

Can a thing, that costs just a rupee, have great aesthetic significance? There are times when the aesthetic and thrifty do intersect as any phillumenist will tell you. By Gautam Hemmady’s own account, ...

Before antismoking campaigns and the advent of disposable lighters, matchboxes and matchbooks were very common. They were everywhere. Today, matchboxes are, most of all, mementos—of that earlier era, ...

We bet you'll never guess what was valued at as much as $3,000 on Thursday night's episode of "Pawn Stars..." Matchboxes. What?! But wait, these weren't just any old matchboxes - they were from Led ...