Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Playing cards featuring the three bears


Three bears playing cards full pack advertising playing cards full deck featuring three bears from the goldilocks story.

advertising the quick cooking porridge oats by keen-Robinson & co ltd of Norwich
Are they rare i don't know but definately collectable and cute.
A very interesting company began manufacturing mustard various aquisitions mergers took place over the years led to them being bought by colmans the mustard manufacturer this led to the robinson barley water brand and lots of other food related companies its a very complicated history which  wikipedia goes into in some detail here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colman%27s wikipedia according to a quick web search a lot of products including glass bottles are found bearing the name of keen- robinson and co ltd