Every shop in the 1960s handed out matchbooks, and Kerner Tool & Die was no different. This one came out of a drawer from the shop my uncle Ed owned, and my father Fritz helped run, out on Reese Road in Erie, and I've restored it from the original. The ZIP code dates it to 1963 or later, back when ZIP codes were brand new and so was the work listed on the back: Hydrotel and Deckel duplicating, electrical discharge machining, and tape-controlled milling and drilling. That was the cutting edge, and my family's shop was doing it.

The matchbook cover is printed on one side of the mug and the back panel on the other, on an 11 oz white ceramic mug that's dishwasher and microwave safe.

Pour your coffee into a piece of Erie manufacturing history.

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