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This is a 'Virtual Set'.1955 - 1957
Abbeon Supply Company
Prehistoric Animals Porcelain-like Figurines - Information Card Inserts
This is a 'Virtual Set'.
 
     
Year:1955
Product Category:Cards
Advertising Items
Other Stuff
Product Function:Toy Inserts
Country:United States
 
Set ID:387
Qty. Base Items *:?
Qty. Variations **:0
Qty. Filler Items ***:0
 
* Advertised Set      ** Variations (e.g., different numbering, text, design)      *** Filler Items (e.g., checklists, title cards, ad. cards)
 
Artist(s)
To be determined
 
Thank you to the individual(s) listed below and/or to the owner(s) of the resource(s) listed below for contributing information, checklist data, and/or image(s) included on this page.
Michael Howgate
Robert Telleria
The Prehistoric Times
 
These information cards were included with the 'glazed porcelain-like' scale models of prehistoric animal issued by Abbeon, a company dealing in humidifiers and anti-humidity equipment.  In 1955, these models could be purchased individually for $2.00 or in groups of three for $5.00.
 
Advertising cards for these figurines were also issued (see Advertising Items section below). I believe (and this is only a guess), that different postcards were sent out to potential buyers depicting, two, three or four of the porcelain-like figurines at a time, perhaps as they became available from the factory. If this is the case, then there should be five or six different advertising cards.
 
 
 
Contents
Cards
Advertising Items
Other Stuff
 
 
 
 
========== Cards ==========
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11811 Extinct Life 10 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Dimetrodon
The Dimetrodon
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11812 Extinct Life 11 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Triceratops
The Triceratops
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11813 Extinct Life 12 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Stegosaurus
The Stegosaurus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11814 Extinct Life ? 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Allosaurus
The Allosaurus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11815 Extinct Life ? 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Corythosaurus
The Corythosaurus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11816 Extinct Life ? 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Protoceratops
The Protoceratops
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11817 Extinct Life ? 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Rhamphorhynchus
The Rhamphorhynchus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
11818 Extinct Life ? 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Styracosaurus
The Styracosaurus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24848 Extinct Life ? 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Apatosaurus
The Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus)
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24849 Extinct Life ? 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Ankylosaurus
The Anklyosaurus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24850 Extinct Life 20 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Pteranodon
The Pteranodon
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24851 Extinct Life 21 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Parasaurolophus
The Parasaurolophus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24852 Extinct Life 22 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Tylosaurus
The Tylosaurus
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24853 Extinct Life 23 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Iguanodon
The Iguanodon
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24854 Extinct Life 24 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Eryops
The Eryops
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24855 Extinct Life 25 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Moschops
The Moschops
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
24856 Extinct Life 26 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Nothosaurus
The Nothosaurus
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
========== Advertising Items ==========
 
 
It is interesting to note that the first item below is an actual post card where as the second item is not designed to function as a post card; perhaps serving as a countertop point-of-sale handout.

 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
60661 Extinct Life -- 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Dimetrodon
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
Prehistoric Animals in Beautiful Color Ad Card (Figures #10-12)
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
45846567 Extinct Life -- 1 tbd n/a
Reproductions of Prehistoric Animals Ad Card (Figures #13-19)
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
45828533 Extinct Life -- 1 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" n/a Iguanodon
Parasaurolophus
Pteranodon
Tylosaurus
Authentic Reproductions of Prehistoric Animals Ad Card (Figures #20-26)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
========== Other Stuff ==========
 
 
 
DB ID Topic In Scope? DF Collection? Printed No. Notes Qty Size (Inches) Album Pages Life Forms Fictional Life Forms
45867958 -- 1 tbd n/a
Complete Set of Figures (Robert Telleria Collection)
 
 
 
 
 

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