A vintage State-Express Cigarettes advertising matchbook, c. 1940s, in brown leather gilt case, featuring a pen sketch of a face in profile with Chaplinesque moustache and an autograph by Charlie Chaplin on the inner side of flap, approximate size 5.5 x 4cm; pen annotations and spotting to paper, lower section unglued and with rusty paperclip. Matchbook is housed in a leather case with gilt lettering. Provenance: The matchbook was signed for a still photographer who worked at Pinewood studios.