Vintage Finnish coffee packet collecting cards

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08/11/2014 at 10:21 • Filed to: None

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Coffee company Paulig started the possibly first collecting craze amongst Finnish children in 1953 when they started to print pictures of cars, trucks, motorcycles and other vehicles on the cardboard seals which were used in coffee packets at the time. Other companies soon followed with their own versions but none of them could match the popularity of Paulig.

Paulig cards (note the pronunciation instructions)

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for a full list of the 236 cards.

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AAA kahvi cards

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OKA kahvi cards

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Kinja'd!!! kanadanmajava1 > KnowsAboutCars
08/11/2014 at 10:42

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Coffee was still a luxury item here in 50's. Finland was a very poor country after the war and importing of goods was limited.

Full collection of these cards was probably quite hard task to accomplish.