Free Gift Transfers with Breakfast Cereals

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Lyons Ready Brek The Rescuers [PR258]

Four different 'Adventure Strips', each in a sachet with a sheet of transfers to be applied in specified positions.

The front (& the left side) of the packet:

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Original photo courtesy of Nick Symes

And the back (with the right side… er… on the left):

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Original photo courtesy of Nick Symes

The Transfer Sheets

The transfer artwork is really quite odd, almost looking as if it had been drafted by Rotadraw (also owned by Letraset) or Etch-A-Sketch. This probably indicates it was drawn on an early CAD* workstation.

*: Computer Aided Design; i.e., a computer.

We have scans of sheets 2 & 3:

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And Nick Symes' photos of sheets 1 & 4:

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Original photos courtesy of Nick Symes

The Adventure Strips

These & their enclosed transfers fold up to fit in the standard transparent sachets:

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Original photo courtesy of Paul Hart

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Original photos courtesy of Nick Symes

This detail from the side of the packet illustrates where you were supposed to apply your transfers:

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Original photo courtesy of Nick Symes

Rescuers Stationery

Interestingly, as you can see from this scan from the Letraset 1978 trade catalogue, the transfers were also provided in the Rescuers' Writing Set:

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(Try to ignore the apostrophe glitch in the headline!)

There's more stationery — on other subjects — on the Letraset Stationery page.

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Picture Credit: The SPLAT Scan Archives — Nick Symes