These inexpensive wooden matchsafes are a great little authenticated and very practical item to add to your kit. While playing the "bored soldier in camp", I took out my jack kinife and "personalized" mine a bit. My admittedly amateurish efforts resulted in an even better "look". My oriiginal order was for four of these handy, authentic, and practical little gems, but I think I will be ordering a few more in order to "customize" them and hand them out to my company-mates. In case you are wondering about the capacity of these matchsafes, I have found the following to be true. Using "diamond brand, Strike Anywhere Matches" cut down from their normal 2 1/4inch length to about 1 5/8 inches, there is room for 24 individual matches and the cap closes correctly.