Four Thousand Matchbox Labels in Kandy
Pharmacist Ruwan Peiris keeps 4,000 matchbox labels in a back room above his shop. He explains how he stores them, the ones he still hunts, and what his daughter thinks.
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How a Nine-Year-Old Starts a Lifelong Collection
Nilanthi tells the story of her first album, a gift from a postman uncle in 1989, and explains how a childhood habit became a catalogued archive of Ceylon postal history.
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