Vintage Eddy Matches Cardboard Box. The Eddy Match Company is a manufacturer of matches. Founded in 1851, the company's original main product was wooden matches. The company began manufacturing matches in Hull, Canada East in 1851 as the E. B. Eddy Company. Ezra Butler Eddy had started off in business making matches in Hull by hand, from wood discarded by local sawmills. E. B. Eddy sold off its match division in 1927.