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 13
