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Flying Rani
"Matchbox label - Flying Rani - India (circa 1940s) - MBP1510470360.jpg" by Unknown (commercial matchbox manufacturer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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Flying Rani

फ़्लाइंग रानी·Flying Rani

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The advertising

“Flying Rani”
Printc. 1940s

A matchbox label showing a winged creature with a human head, in bright folk-art blue and yellow. Thousands of label designs like this were printed for Indian match factories.

Placeholder copy — original wording added later with sourcing.

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