1960s
Picture Card Album
A&BC Chewing Gum
1 album
I must have been around 9 or 10 when a sweets van used to come around our street and they sold packets of gum with cards inside - Footballers, Cricketers, Flags of the World, etc. I used to collect most of the different sets. I was amazed to kind this almost mint condition album on eBay and recognised it as the same album I used to collect my cards in. The album is generic and I needed to write the name of the collection on the front and list all the cards in the back of the album (probably where I got my obsession with checklists from). I've got to say, cutting the slots was a real pain, there were no Stanley knives (box cutters) around then or if there were we never had one. I had to force a scissors point through the rough paper before cutting along the dotted lines.
Alan
ReplyDeleteI used a razor blade which was a bit flimsy and I was supervised by my dad who loaned me the razor blade in the first place. Woe betide me if attempted to do it without his presence.
regards
John
Hi John,
DeleteI don't think I gave razor blades a though, I would have been in too much of a rush. Yours must have looked a lot neater than mine!
Alan