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Phone cards
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Telephone Cards

In the days before mobile phones, public call boxes were actually used for ringing people up rather than advertising bizarre personal services.

And to ensure that little Jimmy or Stacy didn�t spend their emergency call money on sweets, Mums and Dads started buying smart new BT phone cards.

After several bold designs were launched to promote them, collecting the cards became almost as popular as trainspotting among UK obsessives.



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