Brooke Bond: The Classic Tea Card Collections

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Check us out on social media for competitions and offers and to see the day to day life of our little world. Some pages must have stuck together at some point in their life as there are a few tiny tears here and there but the general condition of these books is fantastic. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The Rare Collection of Brooke Bond Tea Cards are a perfect choice for the history buff, tea-lover, or art connoisseur in your life, including yourself!Cards were collected from Brooke Bond tea packs or Brooke Bond coffee tins and you could also send off for specific cards. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings.

The Space Race ended, and NASA was bled of money and resources which ended up being spent and used elsewhere, but one day we will get out there and it’ll be glorious. From the late1960s, the tea cards depicted history subjects from the “British Costume” to the “History of the Motor Car”. The entire set is now online on Flickr, and they’re wonderful bits of hopeful future thinking that in 1971 we’d look forward to a decade where we’d reach out and explore our solar system and possibly beyond. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.

Pre-loved: All books are complete except for the Ship and Race into Space books where 2 cards are missing. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Choose from unique and beautiful Rare Series tea card collection or browse the mint condition Canada Series and USA Series . A second hand Brooke Bond full set of tea cards featuring African wild life that come in the original booklet and are in generally good condition albeit with obvious signs of wear including creases and folds to the booklet. Some of the original black back sets were also reprinted, but is it very difficult to distinguish these from the original printings.

This title helps to see how each album was intended to look, with every card printed in its correct position, making every page an enormously colourful feast for the eyes. The seller shipped promptly and, for an international packet during the holidays, it arrived in a very reasonable amount of time. I was really impressed with the quality of the card, and I love the artistic flare and creativity of Louise. From 1954-the early 1960s, the tea cards included wild-life-based art collections, including “British Wild Animals” and “Tropical Birds”. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. These beautiful, high-quality lithography cards are in mint-condition and feature fantastic artwork by artist Charles Tunnicliffe.

Things were grim if like me you grew up in a deprived part of Glasgow, but there was optimism always as after all, in the midst of deprivation if you can’t have something good and shining then you may as well give up. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. These are reprints of the blue back originals and differ in that they are printed in black on the back of the cards. They help us to identify popular products and understand your browsing habits so we can display relevant adverts to you. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.This particular collection was collected by my Dad - he is as fastidious as me with these sorts of things!