These items were once called "lucifers".  
Robert Lowe, Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer, used the slogan ex luce lucellum to promote a tax on these items that was ultimately dropped from the 1871 budget.  These items were mass produced from a factory at Jonkoping, Sweden by the industrialist J. E. Lundstrom.  Fabian Annie Besant gave workers in this industry copies of The Link to encourage them to strike.  People working to produce these goods frequently developed a condition called (*) "phossy jaw".  A girl who sells these objects sees her dead grandmother in the sky in a Hans Christian Andersen short story.  These items were once called "lucifers".  Anton von Schrotter developed a much safer variety of these items by using red phosphorous.  For 10 points, name these items whose "safety" form separated their heads from the ignition surface on the box.
Robert Lowe, Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer, used the slogan ex luce lucellum to promote a tax on these items that was ultimately dropped from the 1871 budget.  
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