I've got a horrible feeling they may not be cinderellas but matchbox labels. If anyone with better Russian than mine can read the bottom two lnes, they may be able to confirm or deny that.
You're probably right. My Russian is very limited but the text at the bottom refers to a factory (fabrika, f-ka), a standard (gost) and 50 pieces (50 shtuka, 50 sht.).
Thanks Nigel. It's the abbreviations that always throw me. The top line is presumably the factory name and seems to consist of Kuzbass and Barnaul,which were two reasonably adjacent industrial areas of the Soviet Union - a hundred miles, maybe.
Quote: Matchbox labels? They seem very fancy and have had a bit of work put into them for that.
If you are still in doubt Google the words Soviet Matchbox Labels. Here is a very obvious matchbox label, and the bottom line of text (on the left this time) is identical in format to yours (with 60 matches this time instead of 50!)
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