Circa: 1961
Condition: used
Size: 2.65 inches by 1.5 inches
Color: red, green, blue
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Publisher: PG Tips Brooke Bond Tea
This is a complete set of the Tropical Birds set of 50 tea cards made by Brooke Bond Tea. All but one of the cards are 1961 blue backs with number 43 having a black back from the 1974 reissue. Each card is 2.65 inches by 1.5 inches in size. I am also including 19 duplicates of the set. Birds included are Bateleur Eagle, Crested Hornbill, Levaillant's Barbet, Shoebill, African Jacana, Peach or Rosy-Faced Lovebird, African Pigmy Goose, Painted Snipe, Purple-Crested Turaco, Paradise Whydah, Red Bishop Bird, Red-Billed Quelea, Violet-Eared Waxbill, Angolan Pitta, Lilac Breasted Roller, Fish Eagle, Southern Carmine Bee-Eater, Lesser Double-Collared Sunbird, Sun Gem, Ornate Umbrella Bird, Toco Toucan, Rufous or Red-Tailed Jacamar, Scarlet Macaw, Scarlet Cock of the Rock, Blue-Grey Tanager, Cuban Trogon, Scarlet Ibis, White-Tailed, Tropic Bird, Blue-Hooded Euphonia, King Condor, Sun Bittern, Rosy Flamingo, White-Faced Whistling Duck, Magnificent Frigate Bird, Indian Darter, Fairy Blue Bird, Orange-Bellied Chloropsis, Indian Crested Swift, Ceylon Emerald Dove, Orange Minvet, Painted Bush-Quail, Lovely Wren, Java Sparrow, Gouldian Finch, Leadbeater's Cockatoo, Radjah Shelduck, Red-Sided Parrot, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Red Bird of Paradise and Wilson's Bird of Paradise. |
