Sixties City - Brooke Bond Tea Cards

Collectible trading cards from tea, bubble gum, sweet cigarettes and others.

Brooke Bond Tea picture card collections 1960s

Before we get going I just want to mention something that I have come across, that may possibly be of minor interest to you, which is that while the terms 'collectable' and 'collectible' are very similar and often used interchangeably, the nuances in meaning between the two is worth noting in passing. 'Collectable' with an 'a' typically connotes objects with a particular appeal to collectors due to factors such as rarity or value, possibly increasing in worth over time. 'Collectible' with an 'i' is, on the other hand, more inclusive and refers to any items that people might gather, regardless of rarity or historic value. Understanding the subtleties between these terms allows for more precise communication among enthusiasts and collectors of various items.
Just saying. Anyway.............a bit of history, a bit of information, a bit of passing interest and lots of pictures - see how many of these you remember, or even collected.

Trading cards, or 'tea' cards as they are more widely known, probably evolved from the popularity of cigarette cards which, in the mid-19th century, were sets of collectible trading cards inserted into cigarette packs to stiffen the packaging and promote brand loyalty. They featured sets of subject-related cards including themes such as famous people, sports stars, cars, wildlife and historical events. With paper shortages increasing during and after World War II, and improvements to packaging, the inclusion of cards became less desirable to the manufacturers. As the shortage receded, the marketing advantages of including collectible cards with products again became apparent and many unrelated products that relied on 'repeat' sales started to include them in their packaging.

Now, by creating colourful, collectible sets of cards on subjects like aircraft, dinosaurs and a wide variety of animals and plants, they had the added advantage of encouraging young people and children to influence parents' purchasing decisions for products that they were never intended to be a target for. The vagaries of luck and the satisfaction of finding a rare or sought-after card added an element of anticipation and excitement to the hobby despite the frequent frustrations of duplicates or hard to get 'rare' cards.

The practice of swapping cards with, or acquiring cards from, relatives, neighbouring friends or kids at school added a social element to collecting that has since given them a sentimental value tied to childhood memories even though the monetary value is comparatively small except in a very few cases where rarity or condition can vastly increase their value. Possibly less so today, except for card-based games, various football-based issues and strangely 'cult' things like Pokemon, but card collecting was quite a big thing up to, and including, the Sixties and there can't be many of us who didn't pursue the 'holy grail' of owning complete card sets!

As the practice of putting cards into cigarette packets had dropped dramatically and pretty well ended in the Sixties after the 1962 Royal College of Physician's recommendation for the limitation of tobacco product advertisement, so we'll just consider the following types of card as we meander through some information on this page concerning what is quite a huge and complex subject. Tea cards, Bubble Gum and Confectionery cards plus some unusual miscellaneous items.

Tea Cards

Although Brooke Bond are probably the best remembered and created the greatest variety, other tea companies and retailers who produced card series included:
Lyons, H.E.Empson, Co-Op, Liptons, Horniman (W.H. & F.J.) & Co Ltd. (a subsidiary of J. Lyons & Co Ltd), Barber's Teas, Tetley, Coopers, Twinings, G.P. (George Payne) Tea, Pukka Tea (Sunova), Charter, Ringtons, Hitchman's Dairies (Tea) and Ty-Phoo.

J. Lyons and its subsidiary companies issued over 130 different sets of trade cards, mostly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s with some duplicated under other trading subsidiaries. The first set was issued in about 1930. These cards, like their cousins the cigarette cards, are now collectible and are frequently offered for sale at auctions. The prices realised depends on the quality and rarity of the individual sets. Despite the claim by some sellers, most of the Lyons cards which come up for auction are generally not rare. The 'Star Trek' issue realises high prices because of its association with the Star Trek movie and the collectors of Star Trek memorabilia. 'Space Exploration' and 'Footballers' are also eagerly sought.

W.H. & F.J. Horniman Ltd was acquired by Lyons in 1918 (some Horniman sets were issued before this date) and Tetley Tea Inc. was bought in 1972 to become Lyons Tetley Ltd. As with Brooke Bond, there was also a range of miscellaneous collectibles such as albums (for trade cards), wall charts (issued at the time of some trade card sets) and some package ‘cards’. These were generally less attractive and formed part of the product packaging, therefore needing to be cut out - an economical but effective way of tying customers (usually children) to the product.

Ty-Phoo, founded in 1903, produced the first pre-packaged tea in the UK. The name Ty-Phoo is apparently the Mandarin Chinese word for 'doctor' and was used as the brand name from 1905 onwards. Although Ty-Phoo had produced 'cards' on the side of their tea packets from the 1920s onwards in a variety of subjects that included flowers, ships and dogs, they are probably best remembered for the various sets of football-themed 'cards' they introduced between 1963 and 1973. These included Famous Football Clubs (2 series of 24), International Football (2 series of 24), Football Club Plaques (44) and Football Stars (24). The 'cards' were actually printed on the side of the packets so the quality varied depending on the skill of the person cutting them out.

Also, the relevant accompanying text was alongside the image and so may have been cut out with the 'card' or not. For most sets, if you collected any 12 of the 'cards' you could send them away to Ty-Phoo in exchange for a 10" x 8" colour photo of your favourite team or player, 'suitable for framing'. Ty-Phoo merged with Schweppes in 1968. The following year this company in turn merged with Cadbury to form Cadbury Schweppes.

In the 1930s, Brooke Bond launched 'PG Tips' into the UK tea market under the name 'Pre-Gest-Tea', a variant on the original advertising name 'Digestive Tea', suggesting that it could be drunk as a digestive aid before meals. Sales people and retailers handily abbreviated this to 'PG' under which it became the company's most famous brand. Through the 1960s Brooke Bond continued to take the larger share of the British tea market, also supporting the Tea Council's promotion 'Join the Tea Set', that aimed to increase the size of the market as a whole.

Everybody drank tea - there was hardly any 'household' coffee around in the Fifties and early Sixties, although there was a product called 'Camp' which was not coffee as such but a similar-tasting chicory essence in liquid form. Kids drank milk, or orange squash and occasionally weak tea, with Ovaltine, Horlicks or hot chocolate before bedtime. Nobody seemed to drink ordinary tap water on a regular basis and most adults took their tea with sugar in it.

Tea leaves were just about the only form that tea came in. Although 'tea bags' had been in existence for many years, there were still very few sold in the UK market - in 1968 only 3% of all tea brewed in the UK from using a teabag. Tetley had first brought the tea bag to the UK in 1939, but it was only Lipton who really introduced it to the UK market in 1952 when they patented their 'flo-thru' teabag. Also, there were not a huge number of brands to choose from, although there may be more than you can actually remember.

From 1954 until 1999, packets of Brooke Bond tea included illustrated cards, most usually with 50 in a series, which were collected by many children. As there were often two series released in a year, this required something like the consumption of two packets of tea per week to even start trying to achieve the acquisition of complete sets. Most of the initial series were wildlife-based, including 'British Wild Animals', 'British Wild Flowers', 'African Wild Life', 'Asian Wild Life', and 'Tropical Birds'.

During the late 1960s they started to introduce a variety of different subjects, some historical, such as 'British Costume', 'History of the Motor Car' and 'Famous Britons'. As well as illustrated albums in which to mount the cards, educational wallcharts were also produced, mainly for schools, and were available for most UK sets. A special 'picture card department' had to be set up during the Sixties purely to deal with the 2,000 plus card orders every day from customers who wanted to complete their sets.

Brooke Bond themselves produced 59 sets of cards for the UK market, with different sets for other countries in which their product was on sale: Canada (17 sets from 1959 to 1974), South Africa (4 sets from 1965 to 1967), Rhodesia and East Africa (7 sets from 1960 to 1966), USA (9 sets from 1960 to 1966) and Italy where, following a merger with Liebig in the late 1960s, Brooke Bond Liebig produced 19 sets of cards between 1971 and 1975. Many sets have since been reprinted. One of the most famous illustrators of the cards was Charles Tunnicliffe, the internationally acclaimed bird painter. Below are the 'albums' that could be purchased to hold the collections:


1960 Freshwater Fish (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated by E.V.Petts Described by A.F. Magri Macmahon	1961 African Wild Life (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by C.F. Tunnicliffe, R.A.	1961 Tropical Birds (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by C.F. Tunnicliffe, R.A.	1962 Asian Wild Life (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by C.F. Tunnicliffe, R.A.	1963 British Butterflies (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by Richard Ward	1963 Wildlife in Danger (Brooke Bond 50 cards) by Peter Scott

Wild Flowers (series 3) (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by C.F. Tunnicliffe, R.A.	1964 Butterflies of the World (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by Richard Ward	1965 Wild Birds in Britain (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by C.F. Tunnicliffe, R.A.	1966 Transport through the ages (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated by Richard Ward Described by Arthur G.Bourne	1966 Trees in Britain (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated and described by Michael Youens	1967 Flags & Emblems of the World (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Described by R.O.Dennys O.B.E., F.S.A Illustrated by G.Mussett and N.Manwaring

1967 British Costume (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated by Michael Youens Described by Madeleine Ginsburg B.A.	1968 History Of The Motor Car (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated by Kenneth Rush Described by Peter Hull	1969 Famous People 1869 - 1969 (Brooke Bond 50 cards) Illustrated by Angus McBride Described by Virginia Shankland	1962 Asian Wild Life One of the wall charts produced by Brooke Bond to help with education in schools	1962 Asian Wild Life The text on the back of the card was reproduced inside, as well as additional information and illustrations not on the cards	1969 Famous People 1869 - 1969 In most cases the images were high quality illustrations with actual photographs only being used in much later series

The card sets produced by Brooke Bond is as follows:

1954	20 cards	British Birds	1974	50 cards	The Sea - Our Other World	1985	20x Double 40 cards	Incredible Creatures	1994	12x Double 24 cards	Creatures of Legend
1955	50 cards	Wild Flowers Series 1	1975	50 cards	Inventors and Inventions	1986	12 cards	Chimp Stickers	1994	20x Double 40 cards	Going Wild
1956	50 cards	Out Into Space	1975	50 cards	Wonders of Wildlife	1987	20x Double 40 cards	Unexplained Mysteries of the World	1995	50 cards	The Secret Diary of Kevin Tipps
1957	50 cards	Bird Portraits	1976	40 cards	Play Better Soccer	1988	12 cards	The Language of Tea	1996	40 cards	40 years of Chimps television advertising
1958	50 cards	British Wild Life	1977	40 cards	Police File	1988	25x Double 50 cards	Discovering Our Coast	1997	45 cards	Pyramid Power
1959	50 cards	Wild Flowers Series 2	1978	40 cards	Vanishing Wildlife	1989	25x Double 50 cards	The Magical World of Disney	1998	30 cards	The Wonderful World of Kevin Tipps
1970	50 cards	The Saga of Ships	1979	40 cards	Olympic Greats	1990	25x Double 50 cards	A Journey Downstream	1998	20 cards	International Soccer Stars
1971	50 cards	The Race into Space	1980	40 cards	Woodland Wildlife	1991	6x Double 12 cards	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - Dimension Xescapade	1999	19 cards	Oracle Cards
1971	50 cards	Prehistoric Animals	1981	40 cards	Small Wonders	1992	20x Double 40 cards	Olympic Challenge 1992	1999	1 card	Survey Card
1972	50 cards	History of Aviation	1983	25x Double 50 cards	Queen Elizabeth I - Elizabeth II	1992	20x Double 40 cards	Natural Neighbours	1999	1 card	Thank You Card
1973	50 cards	Adventurers and Explorers	1984	25x Double 50 cards	Features of the World	1993	10x Double 20 cards	The Dinosaur Trail	1999	3 cards	Farewell to PG Tips

Chewing Gum, Ice Cream, Confectionery and Miscellaneous Other Card Issues

Collectible cards were not just limited to tea companies - manufacturers of 'sweet cigarettes' for children, such as Barratt & Co. (acquired in a friendly takeover by Bassett's in 1966, which in turn was taken over by Cadbury Schweppes in 1989), Comet, Swettenhams, Primrose Conf. Co. Ltd., Cadet Sweets, Gaycon Confectionery, Como and Sweetule also took the opportunity to emulate adult tobacco cigarettes by introducing collectible card sets in their packets. In addition, there were notable numbers of card sets available with brands of bubble gum, possibly the most notable of which were the A&BC American Civil War Cards which included examples of old confederate and union paper money with them as well. The main players in the bubble gum market were Topps, A&BC. and Somportex.


Manufactured in 1965 by Somportex Ltd. to tie in with the release of the fourth James Bond movie 'Thunderball', they were made in a small factory in London. This black and white third set of James Bond bubble gum cards contained 72 cards. Each pack contained two cards and a piece of chewing gum. Most of the cards depict stills from the James Bond movie 'Thunderball', except for a few publicity shots of the Aston Martin DB5. The first run of cards were produced early to maximise card sales in shops and cinemas when the film was released but was issued without some later film scenes as these weren’t available at the time of printing. The second run replaced some cards with newly available underwater scenes so, although still marked as a 72 card set, there were actually 80 cards including replacements.

A. & B.C. Chewing Gum Ltd.

A&BC were formed in 1949 and over its 25-year history produced some of the best quality bubble gum collectors cards seen in the UK. The A&BC name comes from the surnames of the four founders of the company; Anysz, Braun & the brothers Coakley.
Their range covered film stars, The Beatles, The Monkees, The Man from UNCLE, War cards and banknotes, as well as 16 sets of English and Scottish football cards between 1956 and 1974. The company initially produced chewing gum, then bubble gum and finally started including cards on a range of subjects in the packs. The first footballers to appear were in the 'All Sports' set of 1954 in which 36 of the 120 cards featured footballers.

One notable set of their cards were World War II-based cards known as ‘Battle Cards’ which they issued in 1966. As with 'Civil War News' these were extremely graphic and full of violence, blood and death - apparently very appealing
to six to ten year-old kids! They were not just quite shocking but also mini works of pop-art and comic icons painted by Norman Saunders, Maurice Blumenfeld, Ed Valigurski, and Bob Powell.

A&BC Sixties Issues: the number in brackets is the number of cards/stickers/stamps/notes/items in the set:

1960: The Exploits of William Tell (36), Funny Greeting (66), Golden Boys (40)
1961: Cricketers, Test Series (48), Fotostars (40), Funny Valentine (66), Who-Z-At-Star? (70)
1962: Sir Francis Drake (25), Wacky Plaks (88)
1963: Flags of the World (80), The Beatles (60)
1964: Top Stars (50), Top Stars (40)
1965: The Beatles (40), The Beatles, 2nd series (45), Civil War Banknotes (15), Civil War News (88), Pop Stars Fab. Photo Stamps (96), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (55), The Rolling Stones (40), Winston Churchill (55)
1966: Batman (44), Batman (55), Battle Cards (73), Flags (40), Military Emblems (24), Silly Stickers (37)
1967: Batman (44), Batman (38), Batman (55), Christian Names (56), The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (25), Magic (36), The Monkees (55), The Monkees (55), The Monkees Hit Songs (30), Ugly Stickers (44), Wacky Labels (37), You'll Die Laughing (48)
1968: Bazooka Joe and his Gang (60), Comic Book Foldees (43), Famous Indian Chiefs (22), Hip Patches (200), Nutty Initials (49), Planet of the Apes (44), Punch Out Jigsaw (16), Superman in the Jungle (66), The Legend of Custer (54), Wanted Posters (16)
1969: Battle of Britain (66), The High Chaparral (36), Huck Finn (55), Land of the Giants (55), Man on the Moon (74), Put-On Stickers (33), Star Trek (55), Tattoos (16), The Champions (45)
Two sets are not listed above: 1964 Mars Attacks (55) and 1966 Outer Limits (50). The cards don't show A&BC anywhere on them as they apparently didn't want the public to know they published them!

The Topps company were, even then, a well-known US producer of trading card and sticker collections and other products including Bazooka Joe gum. The company was founded in 1938 and began adding trading cards to their packets of gum in 1950 in order to try and increase sales.
A&BC had a long partnership with the Topps company from America but this ended in litigation in June 1974. A&BC lost the case and ended up with Topps taking it over, ending the run of football card sets in 1974/75. Topps was the leader in the trading card industry from 1956 to 1980, not only in sports cards but in entertainment cards as well.

Ice Cream

Ice cream companies got in on the act through Wall's Ice Cream and J.Lyons (including its subsidiary companies Lyons Maid, Mister Softee and Tonibell). Lyons and its subsidiaries made over 130 sets of trading cards during their history. Mister Softee was acquired in the 1950s, Neilson Ice Cream in 1963, Tonibell in 1969 and Midland Counties Ice Cream in 1973. Because they were giving away cards with a cold, potentially wet item, Lyons Maid came up with the idea of a 'secret' compartment inside the lolly wrapper to keep the card safe. In 1967 Lyon's Maid gave away a set of picture cards (40 )with their Zoom ice lollies, entitled 'All Systems Go' featuring the current Expo '67 in Montreal.

Wall's is a UK ice cream and frozen dessert brand now owned by Unilever and is part of the Heartbrand global frozen dessert brand. The brand also owns the rights to Mr. Whippy soft ice cream. Wall's was founded in 1786 by Richard Wall, when he opened a butcher's stall in St James's Market, London. Under his son, Thomas, and grandson, another Thomas, the business grew and by the early 1900s was nationally known for its range of meat-based products. Every year the company had to lay off staff in the summer as demand for its meat products fell, so in 1913 Thomas Wall II conceived the idea of making ice cream in the summer to avoid those lay-offs, The outbreak of the First World War meant that his idea was not put into practice until 1922 when ice cream production commenced at a factory in Acton, London.
Sixties issues from the major companies were:

Lyons Maid	Mister Softee Ltd.	Tonibell Manufacturing Co Ltd.	Neilson Holdings	Wall's Ice Cream
1962: Train Spotters (50), Birds & Their Eggs (25) 1963: Space Exploration (40) 1964: Famous Locomotives (40), 100 Years of Motoring (50) 1965: Famous Aircraft (40) 1966: Famous Cars (40), Famous People (48) 1967: Views of London (40) 1968: Space Age Britain (40), All Systems Go (40) 1969: European Adventure (40), Into the Unknown (40) 1970: British Wildlife (40), On Safari (40), Pop Stars (40) Most of these were with their 'Zoom' ice lolly but also produced a set of 40 Soccer Stars in 1970 for their 'Score' ice lolly.	1961: Did You Know? (25) 1962: Moon Mission (15), TV Personalities (25) 1963: Top Twenty (20), Your World (12) 1964 :Top 10 (issued with Record Mirror) (12) 1965: Top 10 (address N7) (12), 1966: Top Ten (address W6) (12) Star Cards (numbered with address) (12) 1967: Star Cards (numbered no address) (12) 1968: Star Cards (unnumbered) (24) 1969: Pop Parade (24)	All 1963: Did You Know? (25) Inventions that Changed the World (25) The World’s Passenger Liners (25) This Changing World (with line) (25) This Changing World (without line) (25) Wonders of the Heavens (25)	1967: Star Cards (numbered) (12 1968: Star Cards (issued with Disc & Music Echo) (24) 1970: Star Discs (24), Lord Neilson Identipic (15)	1965: Do You Know (24) 1966: Moon Fleet (T.Wall & Sons) (48) 1967: Doctor Who Adventure (Sky Ray) (36)

Confectionery and Miscellaneous

Cadet Sweets (and also Comet Sweets) was a subsidiary of Paramount Laboratories of Slough, Berkshire, and was primarily a maker of sweet cigarettes. During its lifetime, the Cadet Sweets brand produced some of the most popular and highly collectible trading cards representing television in the 1950s and 1960s, including Dr. Who and the Daleks, Stingray, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and Daktari, as well as several sets of footballers cards in the late 1950s. Paramount Laboratories was taken over by Sir James Goldsmith in 1964 and, in 1965, was combined under the Cavenham Foods brand along with several other companies he had recently taken over, including Hollands Toffees Ltd (Southport) and Yeatmans of London (producers of 'Goodies' and 'Selesta'). The Cavenham company was taken over by its directors in 1981 and was then sold to Imperial Tobacco in 1985 as a part of their Imperial Foods subsidiary. Numerous takeovers and name changes have since taken place.

The Primrose Confectionary Co. of Slough, England, was another large manufacturer of sweet cigarettes for children, back in the 'old' days when it was not considered highly inappropriate. The company produced many sets of cards that were with their sweets that included sets based on Star Trek, Superman, Dad’s Army, Joe 90, The Beatles, Bugs Bunny, Laurel and Hardy, and Popeye, its most famous and successful line.

Cards were also produced to support many miscellaneous products and companies, some completely unusual. Some companies that produced card sets were Kellogg who issued quite a few sets, Lever Brothers for Sunlight Soap and The Northern Co-op. I'm sure there are many others.
Strangely, Sketchley Cleaners also produced several sets although, like many of the other smaller card providers, tended to issue sets under their own branding that had previously been released by other, larger companies.

Below is a selection, although by no means anywhere near exhaustive, of the card sets that you may remember and possibly even collected yourselves:


Coopers Tea 1961 Strange But True (25)	Liptons Tea 1966 Flags of the World (60)	Lyons Tea 1961 Wings of Speed (24)	Ringtons Tea 1964 Sailing Ships Through the Ages (25)


Ty-Phoo Tea 1967 International Football Stars (24)	Ty-Phoo Tea 1962 Do You Know? (24)	H.E. Empson Tea 1966 Tropical Birds (25)	Sketchley Cleaners 1960 A Nature Series (25) (also issued by Sweetule Products in 1958)


Sweetule Sweets 1959 Birds and Their Eggs (25)	Comet Sweets 1961 Armand & Michaela Denis On Safari series 1 and 2 (25 cards in each)	Swettenhams Sweets 1958 Birds and Their Eggs (25)	Lever Brothers 1961 British Birds and Their Nests (20) (with Sunlight Soap)


A&BC 1965 Battle Cards (73)	Neilson 1968 Star Cards (24) (in Disc and Music Echo)


Somportex 1964 James Bond 007 (60) (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger)	Somportex 1965 The Exciting World of James Bond (50) (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger)	Somportex 1965 John Drake Danger Man (72)	Somportex 1966 Thunderbirds (72) (black and white)	Somportex 1966 Thunderbirds (73) (colour)


Somportex 1966 The Saint (72)	Primrose Conf. Co. Ltd. 1962 The Flintstones (50)	Cadet Sweets 1960 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (48)	Somportex 1968 Sexton Blake (72)	A&BC 1966 The Girl from UNCLE (25)	Cadet Sweets 1966 The Man from UNCLE (50)


Primrose Conf. Co. Ltd. 1968 Z Cars (50)	Northern Co-Op 1962 Weapons of World War II (25)	Cadet Sweets 1964 Dr. Who and the Daleks (50)	Cadet Sweets 1964 Stingray (50)	Como Confectionery 1964 Supercar Series 1 and 2 (25 cards in each)


A&BC 1969 Star Trek (55) (all scenes are from the episode 'What Are Little Girls Made Of')	Kelloggs 1963 Famous Firsts (12)	Primrose Conf. Co. Ltd. 1965 Amos Burke - Secret Agent (50)


Lyons Maid 1963 The Space Album cover 'Zoom' lolly wrapper and The Space Album advert Space Exploration (40)	Lyons Maid 1965 Famous Aircraft (40)	Lyons Maid 1965 Famous Aircraft album advert


Wall's Ice Cream 1965 Do You Know (24)	Wall's Ice Cream 1966 Dr. Who Adventure (36)	Primrose Conf. Co. Ltd. 1969 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (50)	Lyons Maid 1969 Pop Stars (40) (in Disc and Music Echo)	A&BC 1965 The Man from UNCLE (55)	Gaycon 1961 Kings And Queens (30)	Lyons Maid 1967 All Systems Go (40)


Horniman (WH & FJ) & Co Ltd. 1960 Pets (48)	Lyons Tea 1962 HMS 1902-1962 (32) (descriptive back)	G.P.(George Payne) Tea 1962 British Railways (25)	Tonibell Manufacturing Co Ltd. 1963 This Changing World (25)	Barratt & Co. 1966 Thunderbirds (50)


Hitchman's Dairies (Tea) 1966 Buses and Trams (25)	Hitchman's Dairies (Tea) 1966 Science in the 20th Century (25) (same as GPT set)	G.P.(George Payne) Tea 1963 Science in the 20th Century (25) (same as set to left)	Barratt & Co.1964 Animals in the Service of Man (25)	Como Confectionery 1965 Fireball XL5 (52)


Twinings 1960 Rare Stamps (30)	Badshah Tea 1965 Fish and Bait (25) (set also issued by Barratt in 1962)	Barratt & Co. 1963 World Locomotives (25)	Pukka Tea (Sunova) 1961 Aquarium Fish (50)	Wall's 1967 Sky Ray lolly advert


Barber's Teas 1961 Dogs (24)	Sketchley Cleaners 1960 Tropical Birds (25)	Primrose Conf. Co. Ltd. 1960 Andy Pandy Cards (50)	Wall's Ice Cream 1967 Moonfleet (48)	Sketchley Cleaners 1960 Communications (25)

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