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1955 · 40503 — City Not Stated: Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company P & O 1955. Each card: Folded small octavo 14 x 21 cm very good condition colour drawing front cover corner tips some cards little scuffed card 1 is slightly shorter at the top presumed as issued no text missing minor edgewear. Each card: 4 pp. A set of 11 of 12 in set menu cards designed by the artist Strom Gould. Card No. 1 Red-Crowned Pigeon & Purple-Crowned Pigeon. Card No 2 Fairy Wrens. Card No. 3 Gouldian Finch. Card No. 4 Pink Cockatoo. Card No. 5 Count Raggi's Bird Of Paradise. Card No. 6 Rainbow Bird. Card No. 7 Regent Bower-Bird. Card No. 8 Scarlet Honey-Eater. Card No. 9 Red-Capped Robin. Card No. 10 Laughing Kookaburra. Card No. 11 Rainbow Lorikeet Red-Winged Parrakeet & Green Leek Parrakeet. MISSING: Card No. 12 Kingfisher. The artist also known as Charles Sidebotham Gould was born in Letchworth England on 2/8/1910 and came to Australia in 1937. He was employed as the Sydney Morning Herald's first art director and he also drew its first comic strip in 1944. He died in 1992. No date but about 1955. Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P & O) unknown