Some damage to the front cover - looks like a tag was removed and pulled off a little of the cover around the title. The album is RARE to find in the USA! Album is in Good condition. I count 47 Animal cards pasted in throughout the album. Each little section has a space to paste in the illustrated animal card, and there is a little description of each animal.
There are 50 sections for different animals throughout the album. The album was priced at Sixpence (not sure how much that would have been, but I think that is super neat!), and you could get one card in certain tea packets or two cards in a certain coffee tin.
Unsure of the date but most likely late 1950s-early 1960s. Vintage "Asian Wildlife" Album - Brook Bond Picture Cards published by Brook Bond in London. Part set with duplicates of James Bond Thunderball cards 1966 Part set with duplicates of A&BC bubblegum cards of footballers 1967-8 Part set and duplicates of Land of the Giants cards from 20th Century Fox Part set Monkees Hit Songs cards 1967 Other cards including Outer Limits, odd cigarette cards, Happy Howlers, football cards, road traffic signs, animals, and trains Mixed editions, rubbing to edges of some cards, some marking, many have initials to rear, good condition, printed cards, 7 x 3.5 cm to 8.5 x 6 cm Cards ISBN: In 1988 the company merged with the Batchelors company to form Brooke Bond Foods and in 1995 was merged into Van den Bergh Foods, a subsidiary of the giant Unilever food company., includes: Brooke Bond Tea Cards (part sets with duplicates): Flags and Emblems of the world British Costume The Saga of Ships Butterflies of the World Wild Birds in Britain British Butterflies Wildlife in Danger The History of the Motor Car Trees in Britain Famous People Wild flowers Prehistoric Animals Asian Wildlife Tropical Birds The Sea our Other World Transport through the Ages Freshwater Fish History of Aviation The Race into Space Adventurers and Explorers. The company withdrew from F1 at the end of 1973. The following year Schenken was replaced by Brazilian Carlos Pace.
Thus Brooke Bond Oxo became the sponsors of the Surtees F1 team with drivers Mike Hailwood and Tim Schenken. At the end of the first season Hill decided to join Brabham and Walker decided that rather than struggle on a privateer he should join forces with John Surtees. The deal was for three years and Walker hired British household name Graham Hill to drive for him.
In an effort to publicise the new alliance Brooke Bond Oxo decided to become a motor racing sponsor and joined forces with Rob Walker in 1970 to become the first big non-trade sponsor in F1. Liebig's success had been based on Oxo, a cube of beef concentrate which had been invented in 1847 by Baron Justus von Liebig. The different Brooke Bond blends and an innovative approach to advertising (notably through the tea cards) guaranteed further success but the increased competition from other drinks convinced the company to join forces with the Liebig company in 1968. Brooke retired in 1904 and handed over the company to his son Gerald. Success enabled the company to expand around the world and to invest in its own tea plantations. After several years of struggling the business began to thrive again in the 1880s when Brooke began supplying his teas to grocers shops. The business expanded quickly with new shops opening in Liverpool, Bradford and Leeds and in 1872 he moved the headquarters of the business to London. He decided that the addition of the name Bond sounded better than Brooke by itself. He opened his first shop in Manchester and, rather than selling tea from chests, Brooke produced his own blends by mixing different teas. The Brooke Bond tea company was established in 1869 by Arthur Brooke, the son of a wealthy tea dealer.