BRITAINS ZOO SHOP DISPLAY SIGN 1950-1960

VINTAGE BRITAINS ZOO DISPLAY SIGN ADVERTISING 50'S & 60'S

1929-1959 Britain's Zoological series (known more popularly as Britain's Zoo) appeared between the Wars, and consisted of a wide range of accurately modelled painted lead zoo animals, along with visitors, zoo staff, animal enclosures, and fencing and scenery.

Catalogue text, 1940

" There are few things more interesting either to young or old, than a Zoo; the variety of animals, each characteristically different from the others, majestic, ferocious or docile as the case may be, providing something new to hold the attention, and the whole surrounded by that indefinable attraction of the wild, appealing perhaps to some remote sense when the human being was more the hunted than the hunter.

We are, however, wandering from the point, as this is not intended it be a treatise on Natural History, but a short introduction to BRITAINS LIMITED Zoological Series, which is, as the name implies, a series of models taken wherever possible from life and reproduced with care as to detail, and which will give the "collector" the opportunity of having his or her own Zoo at home and will, we hope, provide many long hours of pleasure and enjoyment, with perhaps some measure of education. "

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