Boxed matches did not set Iran ablaze when in January 1978 the revolution lit the way for the end of the Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) dynasty, but the artifacts collected in a book of match labels—one edited by Shahrouz Mohajer and titled simply Matches (NazarArtPublications, 2017)—provides a curious history of what led up to the turnover of government and way of life for the Iranian people. Mohajer writes: “This book is the result of a somewhat long term field study on both histor