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Brooke Bond
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The wallcharts for East African Birds (Series 1 and Series 2) are well known and the wallchart for East African Wild Life to a lesser extent.
Recently two previously unrecorded wallcharts have been discovered which provide new information on the release of cards and wallcharts in Africa. The two wallcharts; African Birds and African Wild Life, the latter with bi-lingual text, may possibly have been printed for educational purposes only, which like the early GB wallcharts would explain their scarcity.
The African Birds card set is recorded as being issued in Rhodesia only (please see here for further information on this), the pictures on this wallchart are the same as those on the cards but are not in displayed in numerical order and the layout of the pictures is purely aesthetic. The wallchart for East African Birds appears to be the same with the exception of the wallchart centrepiece, where the picture of the album is missing and the word 'East' appears in front of the wording 'African Birds'. The African Wild Life card set was issued in Rhodesia & East Africa (with green backs) and in South Africa (with blue backs for which there are two different versions). The pictures on this wallchart are the same as those on the cards issued in Great Britain, Rhodesia & East Africa and South Africa, but as with African Birds are not displayed in numerical order.
The African Wild Life wallcharts issued in Great Britain and Africa are very similar, including the address; "The Berkshire Printing Co Ltd. Reading Berkshire England" (bottom left corner). The only difference between the two (that can be seen from the scans kindly provided) is that the text underneath the cards differs. The African wallchart uses bi-lingual text (as does the East African Wild Life wallchart) whilst the GB version is only in English. Further research shows that the bi-lingual text on the African Wild Life wallchart is Afrikaans whilst on the East African Wild Life wallchart it is Swahili. For a comparison of subjects on these two wallcharts please see here. Both wallcharts measure approximately 733mm x 990mm. Wallchart pictures courtesy of Judith Towersey - December 2010 |
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