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Rising from the ashes

RE you old enough to recall the cards we used to get in packets of leaf tea? Sadly, I am! The cards ran from 1954 to 1999, and there were usually 50 in each series, though I never managed to get the entire set of any. The first one published was the 20 British Birds set in 1954, and there was a Wild Birds of Britain set

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