DET DANSKE TÆNDSTIKMUSEUM HIS

1850 - 1851
Blegdamsvej 82, Copenhagen
Carl Johan Staal ( 1819 - ?) Born in Stockholm, distiller

Carl Johan Staal, who came to Denmark with his parents in the early 1830s got in 1844 appropriation as a distiller . In 1850 he sought the exclusive right to produce one of his greatly improved method of manufacture of match sticks . But the Polytechnic College did not believe that there was something new in the invention.

In January 1851 Staal sought again, this time on general authorization, while he also submitted the required samples of matches made by himself. But this time he gets rejected , as the fire department at their inspection of the proposed premises in Sværtegade 171 on 2 floor in the building in the back yard does not find them suitable for manufacturing matches. Instead Steel was recommended to build his factory outside the city.

Staal was stubborn and in April the same year he applied again, as he had found the lease on the other side of the lakes round Copenhagen, specifically a building of the 11th bleaching pond ( Blegdamsvej 82) of the long series of ponds, lying on the north side of Sortedamssøen and where people got their clothes and linen bleached . This time the fire department approved the factory, but head of the police, Bræstrup on the other hand, could not accept the position as it exactly was inside the line that politicians were about to approve as the border for how one might bring harmful livelihood . Staal did get his approval on the conditions that he before the next moving day found another address to his factory .

Staal started his factory and did not salk in small shoes because the 17th of July the same year he had a large-scale ad for Moisture Free lacquer match sticks and could announce the 11 grocery shops that sold his fabric beyond his own outlet in the store no.11 at Rosenborg Garden .

Steel did never announce to where he moved after the official moving day 1 October, but the 11 October 1853 , his license was canceled.