There are matchboxes all over the room, on shelves, in glass cabinets, in boxes, everywhere. In fact, there are about 22,000 match boxes from 132 different countries in the world. Some are carefully wrapped in cellophane and some are packed in plastic boxes.
Collector Shakeel Haque says, “Collecting matches is easy in cold countries, but difficult here. The friction strip on one side of the match wears out when you strike it.” That’s why he keeps different boxes carefully in different ways.