1970s Danone BATTLE OF PLANETS SPANISH ALBUM 100% Complete All 94 Cards Vintage

Description

This is a rare, 100% original vintage Spanish
1970's Danone THE BATTLE OF PLANETS TRADING CARDS ALBUM
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I have recently been told that placing trading cards in albums is a European thing only (this has come as quite a suprise to me), so here is a brief explanation that you can totally skip if you are familiar with this kind of item.
In Spain, and in some other European countries like for example France and Italy, we have always had what can be translated as "trading card albums".
That is, soft cover, stapled books (like comic-books but generally thicker and bigger) related to a series, cartoon, movie or topic, where trading cards are literally stuck (in Spain they are called "cromos", and they have always been very popular).
This trading cards are always numbered, and they have to be placed in their specific, numbered spot in the album.
They have always been bought where albums are sold, and they always come in small packages of 5 to 8 random -and always different- cromos (older trading cards were made of cardboard and had to be stuck with a glue bar, whereas modern ones are adhesive).
Whatever cromos were repeated are/were added to a pile, brought to school and exchanged there with other kids.
Ultimately, in case of not finding the ones you were missing, you could order them by writting to the manufacturer.
Sorry about the long explanation, hahahah... I like that my customers know exactly what they are getting. ^_^
DESCRIPTION:
Considering what I have just explained, you can now appreciate that what you are seeing here is a real treasure: an original THE BATTLE OF PLANETS album back from the 1970’s in very nice condition, with all it's 94 cards nevertheless, well stuck in their right places (please remember that this is a kid's product, and kids are not always very crafty when applying cards to their albums!).
Since kids took their albums to the school, finding a complete album from so long ago, and specially in this condition, is quite a feat.
YEAR:
1.970's (the album will not say).
SIZE:
30 x 21.5 cm. ( 11.8" x 8.5" ) approx.
CONDITION:
Very good. All pages are very well preserved, have no scribbling and it is clear that this album has been well taken care of.
Even so, since the cards came exclusively
behind Danone product tags
(they could not be bought as it was usual in newspaper stores), the trading cards were made in very thin paper to be able to fit there, and they would always get wet.
That's the reason why they all have some degree of wavering: they were underneath product tags, in the grocery stores freezers!
I am not kidding!
Needless to say, you don't want to know how many yoghourts one needed to eat to actually complete an album like this one! ^_^
COVER:
Soft cover.
SPINE:
Fine (stapled).
NUMBERED PAGES:
16
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LANGUAGE:
Spanish only.
All in all, this is a rare and exceptional album, and I believe you will be extremely happy whether you are a Battle of the Planets / Gatchaman fan or a collector with a taste for rare and unseen material.
THE PICTURES SHOW THE EXACT ITEM YOU ARE GETTING HOME. I DON'T USE STOCK PHOTOS!!!
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