The twelve complete sets include Transport Through the Ages, Flags and Emblems of the World, History of the Motor Car, as well as the wildlife sets. Tunnicliffe illustrates five of the twelve sets reproduced in Mark Knowler's Classic Brooke Bond Picture Cards Collections and the book is worth picking up for those five sets alone.īut there's a lot more included. Tunnicliffe, a superb nature artist whose talents would eventually earn him an O.B.E. Many of the early sets issued in the 1950s and 1960s were drawn by C. Brooke Bond's first set of 20 featured photographs of British birds photos also featured in the second set of 50 wild flowers and it was only with the third set, Out Into Space, that the cards were illustrated with paintings. The first sets dated back to 1954, based on the old cigarette cards that had existed for years. I remember having some of the albums, like The Saga of Ships and The Race into Space, originally published in the early 1970s. Without wanting to overstate the excitement, it was a bit of a thrill to open up new packets of tea and dig out the card that came with them. Death or Glory: The Best of Battle Picture LibraryĪlthough I'm a hardcore coffee drinker, I was born into a tea-drinking family and grew up with Brooke Bond picture cards.
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