Friday, February 6, 2015

The Conquest of Space (1962?) (Part 1)



This is a "chocolate stamp" book from Australia. The date is around 1962-1964 but I have not figured it out exactly. Nestle's chocolate company put collectable stamps inside chocolate bars and them gave kids the option of buying an album to put them in.  So the resolution of these images may not be great because the actual image is a small stamp.



This certificate of membership was often part of these books. They had several different stamp books on different subjects. I know of also one on "the world on wheels" and one about aircraft.





 Not really sure what the artist was doing that made them imagine the Moon's surface like this.



2 comments:

  1. Gee day there just came across a card belonging to this series. How it reads on the back of the card. Join Nestle's Space Club /New paragraph/ Collect this series of 90 exciting space pictures. There is one in every 3d Nestle's Milk Chocolate Block. /New paragraph/ Send for Nestle's 60-page Space Club Book, "The Conquest of Space", to paste in the pictures. Just send 7/6 (bloody hell that was a lot of dosh for a kid) WITH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS to Nestle's Space Club, Post Office Box 421, Crown Street Sydney, or to the Nestle' Company in your capital city, and you'll receive your album, 10 FREE pictures, member's badge and certificate'. Than it goes on to describe this card. No.24 Four U.S. "Nike" guided missiles on launchers at various degrees of elevation. (actual colour photograph) Betcha the Ruskies had a good look at this one. Lol.

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