"LBJ Ranch" Matchbook.
(JOHNSON, Lyndon B.).
Price: $15.00
Book Id: 28464
Description
Matchbook with "LBJ Ranch" embossed in brown on the front cover (1½" X 2"), 4 3/8" X 1½" (unfolded, with matches removed for safety's sake). Dallas: Universal Match Corp., n.y. (ca. 1969). Near fine. Small staple holes from removal of matches. Glazed beige card stock. Matchbook spine ("saddle" to matchbook collectors) and back cover are blank. This attractive example was acquired directly from RALPH G. NEWMAN (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, who appraised the papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson and briefly maintained an office in the White House -- at which time this memento was obtained. Though not dated, it's a "front striker," which dates it prior to 1973 -- post-1973, a federal mandate placed the striker on the rear cover for safety's sake.
