1993 Mattel BARBIE ALBUM vintage Spanish COMPLETE album (over 200 cards) Panini

Description

This is an original Spanish 1993 Panini / Mattel BARBIE ALBUM 100% COMPLETE with ALL OF IT'S CARDS.
I have recently been told that placing trading cards in albums is a European thing only (this has come as quite a suprise to me), so here is a brief explanation that you can totally skip if you are familiar with this kind of item.
In Spain, and in some other European countries like for example France and Italy, we have always had what can be translated as "trading card albums".
That is, soft cover, stapled books (like comic-books but generally thicker and bigger) related to a series, cartoon, movie or topic, where trading cards are literally stuck (in Spain they are called "cromos", and they have always been very popular).
This trading cards are always numbered, and they have to be placed in their specific, numbered spot in the album.
They have always been bought where albums are sold, and they always come in small packages of 5 to 8 random -and always different- cromos (older trading cards were made of cardboard and had to be stuck with a glue bar, whereas modern ones are adhesive).
Whatever cromos were repeated are/were added to a pile, brought to school and exchanged there with other kids.
Ultimately, in case of not finding the ones you were missing, you could order them by writting to the manufacturer.
Sorry about the long explanation, hahahah... I like that my customers know exactly what they are getting. ^_^
DESCRIPTION:
Considering what I have just explained, you can now appreciate that what you are seeing here is a little treasure: an original
BARBIE ALBUM
back from 1993, in
VERY GOOD CONDITION AND WITH ALL OF IT'S OVER 200 TRADING CARDS
.
When I say VERY GOOD it is because I can not emphasize enough that kids took their albums to school.
So finding a complete album like this one, with this level of preservation, is nothing short of a feat.
And as an album and/or a Barbie collector, you will surely appreciate being able to get this kind of special items!!! ^___^
YEAR:
1.993.
SIZE:
+ 27 x 20 cm. / 10.6" x 7.9" ( closed )
+ 27 x 40 cm. / 10.6" x 15.75" ( open ) approx.
CONDITION:
Very good. All pages are very well preserved for their age and usage degree, have no scribbling that I can see, and it is clear that this album was very well taken care of.
Please review all 12 (TWELVE) pictures included in this description, as I have pictured quite a few -but not all- pages of this album, so you can appreciate what I am explaining... and because it is very well worth it!!!
Please be aware:
1) As usual with kid's albums, the cover has scratches on it. They are only visible when the album is tilted against the light, so they don't affect the displayability of this item at all.
2) In the last page (picture number 9), there is an insert to ask for the missing trading cards to the manufacturer (Panini) which has been used / cut.
COVER:
Soft cover.
SPINE:
Very good (stapled).
NUMBERED PAGES:
48
.
LANGUAGE:
Spanish only.
All in all, this is a rare and very interesting album, and I believe you will be very happy with it whether you are an album or a Barbie collector with a taste for rare, truly cool and unseen material.
THE PICTURES SHOW THE EXACT ITEM YOU ARE GETTING HOME. I DON'T USE STOCK PHOTOS!!!
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