BECHER & WEDFALL
Data Pictures
Labels
Becher & Wedfall
1924 - 1927
Amagertorv 2
In an article
in Ekstra Bladet
the
23rd of
October 1924
Wedfall
stated that
imports of
Finnish
matchsticks
in
September
of the same year
was
26,000
kg, of which
Becher
&
Wedfall
had
impoteret
the
25.500 kg
.
Wedfall also announced
that their
boxes
were all
labeled with
the country of origin
.
On
miraculous way
Becher
&
Wedfall
several times
got however
permission to import
Finnish
matches
without
making
the country
's name
printed on the label
, as
the law
otherwise
prescribed.
The first
time was
on the 8th of
January 1925
,
where
they were
allowed
to import
250,000
boxes
marked
Høvding
and
748,000
boxes
labeled
Sol.
And again
on the 16th
of
January of that year
, they were allowed
to import
additional
1.8
million
boxes of
brand
Spejder
and 2.3
million
boxes of
the brand Høvding.
For a brief period
in
1927
the outlet had the adress
Kultorvet
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