match box / Land League / Parnell, 1880

Land League matchbox, cover only. Flattened out plywood with paper covering showing on one side a portrait of Parnell with above 'The Land League' and below, 'Match' and on the other an encounter between a tenant and a landlord. 'Landlord - I want my rent. Tenant - And I want to pay my rent at Griffith's valuation'. Made by Patterson & Co. Ltd. Dublin and Belfast, about 1880.;