More Suffolk Maid news. They have the new series out. What is it? You'd best look at the Suffolk Maid page.

Other updates I have completed... 

• Suffolk Maid sent me an email and let me know they liked my page on their cards. They said they have their own site now with images of cards from all three series and complete sets and folders for sale. Check it out.

• Red Rose collecting is alive and well almost 40 years after the cards stopped going in the boxes! How can I be sure? Because Terry Gomes just showed me three things about the Red Rose cards that I did not know. Two of them are rather significant. What are they?

  A newly discovered completion card (little 'E' series 6)  An insert in the Indians of Canada album  A new variation in the Series 1 albums.

  Great job Terry, we all need to keep this hobby a little more interesting. Thanks for your help.

• More Tuckfields!?! Yup, in the process of rearranging the Tuckfield card types, I noticed that I didn't have any type Y cards, the ones under the blue backs. I looked at my very few extra blues and found one with a crease and part of the backing already torn off. I gave it a shot and voila!, I have my first type "Y" card and you get to see a scan. It came out pretty good too. You can also view all the variations at bird variations, too. 

• Tuckfields, Tuckfields, Tuckfields! I am slowly attempting to come up with a new card ID system for Tuckfields. Don't worry, I will still reference Terry's types as I know you all use them. In the process, I'm putting out more images of the cards, too. You can view them all at bird variations or individually at the type "C" card, type "D" card, type "E" card, type "F" card, type "G" card, type "H" card, type "I" card, type "I-2" card, type "J" card, type "K" card, type "L" card, type "W" card and type "X" card. I'll let you know as I do more. 

• A Book on collecting tea cards? Yup! My friend Mark Knowler from www.TeaCards.Com  has written a book! It's called Classic Brooke Bond Picture Card Collections. You have to check it out! Just click here! Oh yeah, you have to buy it too 'cause it looks like a great read! There are details on the site about how to buy a copy. I can't wait to get mine. Congrats Mark! What a great way to celebrate our hobby!  

• Times are tough and every dollar has to stretch. With that in mind, I have reduced most of my prices. Looking for something? Ask and you may find it here.  
• Cards down under! Tuckfields has stopped putting bird cards in the boxes and I have discovered yet another variation of the Tetley Tuckfield bird card. 
• I guess we are on a cello kick. Willie Groombridge gave me scans to confirm seven more new configurations. Check out the listing. Along with the new configurations is a new consideration for multiple cards in the packs.
• Three new configurations for Cellos have been seen on an auction website the begins with "e" and ends with "Bay". I bid for them but I was too cheap to win. That's the way the cello crumbles. Check out the New listings in Canadian Series 7, Series 10 Red Top  and US Series 3. Send me a scan if you have a cello configuration not listed here, or if you see it on an auction site.
• Dave Huebert has discovered a Lipton Animals and Young completion form. Check out the new type "J" completion card to see how it differs from all the rest. 
• I don't know why I never thought about it but if you have a section on Free Album Coupons (FACs), don't you really need to have a section for Paid Album Coupons (PACs)? OK, so I made a new PAC section.

• A couple of new large "E" type completion cards were spotted on an auction site recently. Check out the type "E" completion cards for more. 

• My friend Terry Calleyne has discovered another variation. The funny thing is that it has been there right under our noses. What is it? It's the thick series 6 Tropical Bird cards. There are probably some in your collection. You better check it out!

• A new piece of monopoly money was spotted on an auction site recently. Check out the type "A" coupons for more. 

• The Historic Salada Picture Contest has been completely solved thanks to Les Batten and all the others who gave these cards a name. 

• I started a new Swapping page. It's starting small with just a single Lamberts series and the Suffolk Maid Railroad cards. Maybe you want to swap? 

• A new error cello was discovered by Willie Groombridge. It's interesting in that it is the first example of Arctic cello packaging I have ever seen. It's tragic that only the completion card is in the cello. Dig into processing errors. Check it out.  
• For those of you who think that the Cartophilic Society of Great Britain (CSGB) is planning on having a show in Thetford in late April of 2008, you may want to check the Norwich update on my Show Page. We don't want you showing up at the wrong place! 
• Wow, someone in the UK is issuing tea cards! I thought Brooke Bond was the last. to do it. Let's see what Dave Curtis has to say about that. Who is issuing tea cards in the UK?
• It was SHOW SEASON again! Yup, if you like England in April, particularly Worcester, then you surely made time for the AGM fair. Check it out on my Show Page. 

• For the last seven years or so I have been meaning to add a page comparing the Animals and Young series from Brooke Bond to the issue from Lipton. Why did it take so long? I dunno but tell me if it was worth the wait. Behold, the Comparison of Series 15. 

• Wow, I was shopping at a local antique mall and scored some US cellos! I never get that lucky locally! Check out the updated cello site, focusing on the US Cello Issues.  

• Willie Groombridge sent me a scan of the series 10 type G Free Album Coupon. Yup, they really do exist. 
• David Hart has closed down his Brooke Bond sale site  ;-(  I bought some really cool items on that site. He tells me that you can catch some of the last of his items on eBay.

• Les Batten is on a roll, he has identified two of the ten Historic Salada Picture Cards! Not only that, he got me to fix #4. Yup, #4 was improperly identified. Pretty good! He fixed #4 and identified #1 and #6. Check out his handy-work. OK Les, When do you figure out the last two?

• Dave Huebert has solved yet another one of the Historic Salada Picture Cards! #2 is now ID'd. Good job Dave! Four left to decipher.
• I seriously updated the Tuckfield pages with the research from Terry Calleyne. Most of the work is in the Bird issues. Thanks Terry, you are Mr. Research!
• Dave Huebert has solved one of the Historic Salada Picture Cards! #7 bites the dust!!!  Good job Dave!
• Many thanks to Willy Groombridge for his questions about some order forms he noticed were different. It was in answering his questions that I decided to do a whole section on order forms. Now they rate right up there with Completion cards and Free Album Coupons. I also made a page with the whole alphabet of letters that I use in describing the different variations of forms. You can see it if you just  click here... 
• Dave Curtis spotted a new (to us anyway) Completion Card variation. No one else has come forward with a French Only one. I've posted the fact that one exists on the Completion Card list. Check it out,  just  click here.. 
• There's a new Downloads section! If you want to download a Red Rose series checklist or two then check it out. It's at the top of the screen right next to the search button. If you prefer, just  click here.. 
• Wow, a new error is discovered and it doesn't take much effort to own it. If you already have a Series 6 Tropical Bird card, you have the error! It's worth a look-see.  
• I created a new section on the Brooke Bond Naturalist Club Certificates . They offered them to kids but only if a responsible adult confirmed that the child placed all 48 cards in the album. Check it out! 
• What if you have just a few tea cards for sale? Check out the FAQ on just that subject and see what I have to say.
• I created a new section on an Australian cereal issuer. We're talking about Sanatarium's Weet-Bix. Not Weetabix like you British might pose, but the Aussie version. Weet-bix has been cranking out cards since the 1940's. My list is not 100% but it is a pretty good start. Per usual, let me know if anything looks a bit off. Click the Weet-Bix name to see the write up and list.

• Localization is when you take something from "away" and make it your own. Red Rose did this when it borrowed a couple of sets of cards from it's parent, Brooke Bond. Check out the new page on localizing a set of cards and another page on the error that was discovered when they did it. Thanks to Dave White from the UK for spotting the problem.

• I finally posted the pics from the wonderful trip my wife and I took to England. We attended the Cartophilic Society's Card Show. It was another great show. As always, it proves that it is the people that make the hobby. 

• Exciting news on the discovery front! A watchful collector, Linda Ringland, has found a new error card in the Butterflies series. We now have listed the Butterflies of North America series #31 error card. And you didn't think there were any errors in the Butterflies series. Well, neither did I.  

• I added a new listing of the Transportation series #9, 10 and 29 error cards. If you ever get confused about which is rare and which is not, check out the list. There is a link for a handy printable version for the next time you go shopping for error cards. 

• There is a new project! We are entering a contest that has been over 44 years! How about we just see if we can name the Canadian locations in the pictures...

• I bought another cello that had not been listed on the chart before. Series 15 Tea/Coffee variation. Keep discovering! Check it out. Let's get some more American cellos listed too.

• To go along with the location renaming, there is a new section on Salada. 

• I bought a cello that had not been listed on the chart before. Series 13 with a CU12 completion card. Keep discovering! Check it out.

• The link to David Lawrence's website is back on our Lyon's page! David asked that it temporarily be removed as he was getting too much traffic from the visitors at TeaCard.Com. He has a great site and I am glad to link to it form my site.

• Thanks to Glen Ryan for the idea of doing a page on Red Rose posters. What? You didn't know that Red Rose did posters!?! Well, sit right back and click on over to it! 

• An auction held recently turned up another odd coupon in a Space Age cello. Keep discovering! Check out the image.

• A couple of good questions have come up on the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions page. Might be worth a look-see. Look-see, that is a Maine expression. I guess that means it more than just a look or a see....

• I recently got hold of some "E" type completion cards. I had never seen several of them. See what got added to the completion card page. Be sure to check out the image at the bottom. I also see a new one on an auction site.

•  A new variation has been "rediscovered"! A while back I had a collector claim he found a variation but no one could confirm it. Thanks to another collector, we now know that the red topped series 10 has 2 variations!.

•  The cello page has a new update (Series 1 'Albums...') thanks again to Phil Millen. Remember, send me a picture of something I don't list as having seen and we'll get your name up there too.

•  Also, an auction held recently turned up a flatware coupon in a cello. Pretty cool, check out the image.

•  David Hart is selling his Brooke Bond collection of many years. It is first come, first serve. Hurry up and check it out right here on my links page or go direct to www.brookebondsale.com. (This web address is no longer valid)

•  Many thanks to Duncan Williams of Canada for his suggestion of an overlooked free album coupon. We now have a type "G". Check it out! I will follow up later with the whole ad it was pulled from.

•  Sadly, I had to remove links to a couple of great sites. First, Alan Wrathall no longer does auctions nor does he keep up his site. They were good auctions and we'll miss you on-line Alan. Second, Davis Hart no longer maintains mybrookebond.com. What a shame! A very entertaining site with the dino artwork and much more. Both sites will be missed. Sorry it didn't work out for you fellows. I know I appreciated both sites and will miss your presence on the web.

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What should I work on next. You can help me out. Email me.

Hang in there, I know I need to put some more time in and it will happen soon. Keep those comments coming. I appreciate it!

Yes, there is a lot more to go too. There are a lot of new images to get out and new information. I also plan to put out a National Wildlife Federation page as there is much cross over there. 

Recent Media Coverage of Bill's Red Rose Tea Cards

• Posters vs. Wall Charts, Wall Covering Made Easy, 01/05/10
• Cello News is Wrapped Up, Packaging Monthly, 06/15/04
• More Non-Brooke Bond Please, Other Interests Magazine, 02/08/04
• A Turkey for Thanksgiving: Bill Eugley, Wildlife Magazine, 11/25/03
• Promotions of the Tea Card kind, PromosRUs, 10/12/07
• The Collector: Bill Eugley, Strategy Magazine, 08/25/03
• We need more content on this website, Stratford Tattler, 07/27/02
• We need more content on this website, If Pigs Could Whistle, 02/09/02
• Is this guy nuts!, The Likely Truth, 10/20/01
• A Labor of Love!, Holiday Reflection, 09/01/10
• Stop "Pun"ishing me!, Not Too Likely, Ltd., 03/24/01
• Dump Your Day Job and Do This All Day, Dreams Unlimited, 12/13/00
• Please Add Something Once in a While, Boring Gazette, 11/27/09
• Make me famous in a FAQ, Better Web Site Monthly, 06/11/00
• Bill likes Java Special Effects!, Bells and Whistles Gala, 06/11/06
• This Site brings back the memories..., Sun Tea Times, 05/20/00
• I'll have another Cuppa, Bill!, British Tea Bag Weekly, 05/15/00
• Bill's Web Site a HIT!, The Tea Tattler Monthly, 05/09/08
• Another Lump Please!, Sugar Coated Tea Sites, 05/08/00

One of these brilliantly faked articles isn't fake at all! Which one is it? Look under articles to find out.

Anything else planned?

If all goes well, I hope to set up a game where you have to identify what I am picturing. I would run it for a month or so and change it to a new one after that. Does that sound OK? Maybe you can think of other ideas, just drop me a line.