Accession No

6816

Brief Description

stamp album, Wonders of the World, by Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, English, 1930 (c)

Origin

England; London; 6/8 Eastcheap

Maker

Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company F. Stannard [printer]

Class

books

Earliest Date

1930

Latest Date

1930

Inscription Date

Material

paper (card, paper)

Dimensions

closed: 211mm (width), 260mm (depth), 7mm (height)

Special Collection

Provenance

Donated by a private individual in April 2024.

Inscription

Description Notes

Stamp album, Wonders of the World, by Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, English, 1930 (c).

Bound book-style stamp album. The cover shows a pale yellow bi-plane flying in blue skies over green fields. 'WONDERS OF THE WORLD' is written in red, with 'NESTLÉ'S PICTURE STAMP ALBUM' in black beneath.

Inside the cover is a bookplate that reads:
This NESTLÉ's Picture Stamp
Album belongs to:
Name: Mr B. J. Burwood 48392.
Address: 157, Green Street,
Forest Gate
E.7. LONDON.

The album is numbered up to page 31. The introduction explains that it is designed for collecting stamps found in Nestlé's 1d. Milk Chocolate Tablets. There are 13 themes or series, each with 12 stamps to collect, and the album has a short article on each series. The series are:
1. Honey Eating Birds
2. Grasshoppers and Crickets
3. Organic Mechanism
4. The Cactus Family
5. Parasitic Plants
6. Curious Insects
7. Twilight Phenomena
8. Living Lamps
9. Aeroplanes
10. In the Depths of the Earth
11. How Leaves Sprout
12. The Human Races
13. The Constellations

The Constellations have a transparent paper overlay which has the names of the constellations.

All the stamps have been collected and stuck into the album.

Complete.

References

Events