It’s hard to imagine such beautiful labels being printed so small. The illustrations were done for the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964. Tokio is the Polish spelling. They would make great posters if blown up wall-size.
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Polish Olympic Matchbox Labels
September 19th, 2011
Posted by Shelby White on 09/19/11 in 1960s
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