Santu Chowdhury

Hi, I'm Santu Chowdhury, live in Port City Chittagong, Bangladesh. I am trying to become a phillumenist since 2021. My love for matchboxes was born from seeing a close friend. In Bangladesh, Respected senior Mr. Shakil Huq & Dr. Mesbah Rony is my collecting idol. I love to discuss collecting related topic with other collectors regularly. I love to keep any kind of matchbox related items in my collection such as different variety of regular size or different size Matchboxes, Matchbox label, Matchbook, Match cover etc...

This is my first international exhibition. I am grateful to BMCC for giving me the opportunity to participate in this exhibition. My respect and gratitude to BMCC will last forever. It will be a great achievement for me if I ever get a place as a member in a reputed club like BMCC.

Hope all of you like my exhibit, Thanks...



Akiz Match Factory LTD is a well known match factory of Bangladesh. In the picture we can see Dolphin Matchbox by Akiz Match Factory, here the stick variant is shown, from the beginning we see the 15±3 stick variant of Dolphin Matchbox, then 20±3, 25±2, 25±3, 30±2 respectively. And last one is the new Dolphin Matchbox design (20±3) which is now widely available across all over Bangladesh.

In this picture we see Akiz Match Factory's Fighter Matchbox, which was probably available around 2015-16. Then the light house matchbox is seen. Next comes the social awareness variety of a matchbox called fire box, which has the number of sticks (35±3). For example, in Social Awareness Match Factory mentions, "Keep children away from fire", "Do not close windows before lighting gas stove", "Avoid burning gas stove unnecessarily to save a stick"

Here at the beginning the first 2 are again of the social awareness variety of the fire box, but with 45±3 sticks, and the 3rd one is 50±3 stick variety.

Next comes the matchbox salmon of "Abul Khair Match Factory LTD", another popular and renowned match factory in Bangladesh. We also see variety of sticks in salmon matchbox, first we see 15±2 sticks, respectively 20±2, 25±2 and lastly the newly launched matchbox.


This picture shows the flame box matchbox of Abul Khair Match Factory LTD, here also we can see variety of sticks like 20±2, 25±2, 35±3 and 50±2 sticks respectively from the beginning. Then there is an old match factory in Bangladesh called "Vorosha Match Industries LTD" which is now closed. The 2 matchboxes shown here also show stick varieties, such as 30±2 and finally 40±2 sticks.

Here is another old match factory in Bangladesh called "Nuruzzaman Biswas Industries LTD" which is also defunct now. Here at the beginning this match factory is showing 2 matchboxes called light box, the first one is of 45±2 sticks and the second one is of 50±2 variety. Next comes a matchbox with an advertisement for "Rocket Mosquito Coil". and the fourth Matchbox is "Rocket", which was available in some places in the Bangladeshi market in 2022, but is no longer available. Then the fifth matchbox was "Rajdhani", and the last one was "Rocket" which was available around 2015-16.

Here we can see 2 old match factories of Bangladesh, whose names are, "Jamuna Match Factory" and the other is "Bayazid Match Industries Ltd".

From the beginning, 4 matchboxes of Jamuna Match Factory are "Jamuna", "Projapati", "Morog", "3 Balloon" respectively. Then 3 matchboxes of Bayazid Match Factory "Biswas", "Two Star (Small Size)", "Two Star (Family Size)" respectively.


Here we can see some matchboxes from the famous match factory of Bangladesh named "Dhaka Match Industries Co Ltd".

From the beginning there is "Nirapad Diashalai", followed respectively by Dhaka Match's "Projapati", "Super Match", "Omega" which is green, then the old "Projapati" which is 60±2 sticks, and finally "Super Game".


In the beginning, 2 matchboxes are seen which is from Dhaka Match Industries, name "Omega" one is red, the other is blue, there is a color difference between them.

After that, one of the oldest factories in the country, "Dada Match Works" started its journey on 18 acres of land in 1955 on the bank of Rupsa River. In 1993, the factory was leased out to Bhaiya Group. One of their most famous is the matchbox "Taxi" seen here. The next match factory is "Indo J.S.A Match Ind. LTD." Their matchboxes are "Barud" one is 30±2 sticks, then "Akij" matchbox is specially made for the Akiz group is seen, designed by our pioneer & popular matchbox collector "Shakil Huq" after that again "Barud" but this one is 50±2 sticks respectively, the variety and design of the sticks being different than before "Barud (30±2 Sticks)"



Here we can see basically 6 different designs of matchboxes, the most interesting thing is that the pioneer and popular matchbox collector of Bangladesh respected "Shakil Huq" who designed these matchboxes, these matchboxes are mainly made for "Jamil Group", the matchboxes were released in May 2015, Manufacturer was "Indo J.S.A Ind. LTD".

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