I've found more. Let's see what I have (watch for a thread)...
Ok, here's the lot, out of the box. The first thing I had to do was peel off all the old elastic bands. They'd gone brittle and many have stuck to, and damaged, the cards. Don't use elastic bands in storage....
In fact, don't use elastic bands at all. Look how many I've collected OFF THE STREET, all dropped by postal delivery workers.
There's a bunch of card sets I confess to not being interested in, among them the lame 1990 #TMNT set (yikes, so many swaps), a Disney set, and the dull Creatures of Legend With Kevin Tipps...
Oh damn, I just found a load more. I'll get to them later...
PG Tips did a few series of sports cards, here's part of an Olympic Challenge 1992 set which I have no interest in. Then there's this 'Going Wild: Wildlife Survival Challenge' set of the 90s, which I also don't like as I find the art very unlikeable, sorry.
Next we come to some vintage sets. Even if they concern a subject I'm not especially interested in, they're great, because the art is so good. Check out this 1969 Famous People set. I have the completed book (currently in storage).
Also from the 1960s... The Saga of Ships, The Race Into Space, Transport Through the Ages. These are great!
More from the 1960s... British Costume is 1967 and History of the Motor Car from 1968. Police File is from 1977.
Then there are these #butterfly sets from the 60s... British Butterflies and Butterflies of the World. Again, I have completed albums as well as these loose cards...
Ok, I've opened that plastic bag. Turns out to contain numerous cards from The Sea - Our Other World, Trees in Britain, and Wild Birds of Britain. Let's have a look...
Ok, check out the art in Trees in Britain -- I LOVE it -- and the 1974 The Sea - Our Other World. Unfortunately I don't have a loose copy of the giant squid card from that set, it's my favourite.
During the 60s, Brooke Bond commissioned Charles F. Tunnicliffe to both write and illustrate a series of these books. They're among the best of the whole lot. Here are the cards from his 1965 Wild Birds in Britain...
Ok, there's several sets from the 1980s (by which time the tea company was PG Tips, not Brooke Bond) - 1981's Small Wonders, the 1986 Natural Neighbours and the 1989 Discovering Our Coast - which are ok, but not especially interesting...
A classic set from the 80s is the 1988 Unexplained Mysteries of the World. It's famous for containing some of the best colour reproductions of several famous monster images, among them the Minnesota Iceman, Shiels Nessie, Hook Island sea monster and frames from the PG footage.
I'm also really fond of the 1978 Vanishing Wildlife. The art - by Graeme Sims - is really unique. I don't have many loose cards from this set. In cases it's obvious that Sims didn't have good reference images on the animals.
I also quite like the art from the 1995 A Journey Downstream. It's a bit lacklustre in places but some of the animals are good...
FINALLY (for now), here's another of my favourites: the 1985 Incredible Creatures. No album for this one, instead the cards belonged to 4 fold-out wallcharts. The artist isn't credited - I wonder if it was Richard Orr? We'll stop there, I hope you enjoyed this thread :)
These to do some other time...
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