T is for That's a Relief!

Does anyone else remember these, I have vague memories of them, in school science labs, hospital waiting rooms or corridors, dentists surgeries, that sort of thing, but I also remember them being cracked, dusty, sun-faded or discoloured, so they must have been popular in the 1960's perhaps, most of my memories being after 1970, when I was six?

 

Rico Firenze of Italy, but an English Language version, and a thin, polystyrene vac-formed moulding, I assume from the contour-following location lines, that the coloured artwork was added before the shaping of the sheet?

 

Dog!

 

Deer.

 

Heart and the Digestive System of a carnivore.

 

Digestive System of a ruminant, and the Lungs

The reverse of the card/sheet.

Imported into the US by the Master Mount Corp., of Flushing, New York.

 

And while I may have given the impression in my opening paragraph, that I remember them everywhere, or all over the place, I don't, but I do remember the odd one here and there, and probably in small frames, did they come here from the US, or dierect from Italy, or did we produce our own, were there more than one maker? I would have loved something like this at Christmas, you could look at it again and again!

 

Thanks to Adrian Little for letting me photograph this old treasure, and rare survivor.