This is a complete set of the Tropical Birds set of 50 tea cards made by Brooke Bond Tea, England as an advertising inducement to be collected and traded. 

All but one of the cards are 1961 blue backs with number 43 having a black back from the 1974 reissue.

Each card is 2.65 inches by 1.5 inches in size.

The set of cards is in very good +++ used vintage condition. The cards are in archival pages.

I am also including 19 duplicates of the set.

Birds included are Bateleur Eagle, Crested Hornbill, Levaillant's Barbet, Shoebill, African Jacana, Peach or Rosy-Faced Lovebird, African Pigmy Goose, Painted Snipe, Purple-Crested Turaco, Paradise Whydah, Red Bishop Bird, Red-Billed Quelea, Violet-Eared Waxbill, Angolan Pitta, Lilac Breasted Roller, Fish Eagle, Southern Carmine Bee-Eater, Lesser Double-Collared Sunbird, Sun Gem, Ornate Umbrella Bird, Toco Toucan, Rufous or Red-Tailed Jacamar, Scarlet Macaw, Scarlet Cock of the Rock, Blue-Grey Tanager, Cuban Trogon, Scarlet Ibis, White-Tailed, Tropic Bird, Blue-Hooded Euphonia, King Condor, Sun Bittern, Rosy Flamingo, White-Faced Whistling Duck, Magnificent Frigate Bird, Indian Darter, Fairy Blue Bird, Orange-Bellied Chloropsis, Indian Crested Swift, Ceylon Emerald Dove, Orange Minvet, Painted Bush-Quail, Lovely Wren, Java Sparrow, Gouldian Finch, Leadbeater's Cockatoo, Radjah Shelduck, Red-Sided Parrot, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Red Bird of Paradise and Wilson's Bird of Paradise.