Here we have the two-humped, Bactrian, or Mongolian camel, which comes from Central Asia.
It gets its name from the ancient land of Bactria, an Iranian civilisation long disappeared, which used to inhabit parts of modern day Afghanistan, Republic of Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, protected by mountains on three of its flanks.
Like the dromedary, Bactrian camels were domesticated for carrying loads and people, but through the cold steppes of inner Asia rather than the desert heat. But although both are from the camel family they have long been known as two different species - as far back as Aristotle, who described them both in his "History of Animals" in the fourth century B.C., calling them the Arabian and Bactrian. And that is from where, in 1775, Carl Linnaeus derived his name of Camelus Bactrianus.
The two Aristotlean names are used on the earliest cards to feature camels - issued with Abdul Cigarettes in 1881 - though both the "Bactrian Camel" and the "Camel, Arabian" are shown on desert soil. Strangely, when these same cards are used in 1890, for the Allen & Ginter set of "Quadrupeds" the titles have changed, to "Camel" for the Bactrian and "Dromedary" instead of Arabian Camel.
This is a lengthy set, issued in two parts. The first batch, cards 1 to 361, were issued in 1976. and the next batch, cards 362 to 724 followed on later in the same year.
The advertising shows that they were designed to be kept in a binder, but this took only 60 cards. If you tried, you could fit the cards in back to back, and get 120 cards in, but you had to be very careful not to damage the cards as you squeezed them in, and once they were there you could not read the backs. In addition, this over-filling made the binders bulge out of shape. There was also another slight problem, as 724 is not divisible by 60, there are four cards left over, which would look slightly odd in a sixty card album. Looking at this another way, if you did manage to get 120 cards in, it would take 6 binders to get all but those four cards in - or if you went for the allotted 60 cards, you would need 12 binders, and again have four cards over.
Perhaps this was why the company offered alternative storage, a metal, lidded box, like a lunch box with a handle. I do not know how the cards fitted in here, but maybe they just stacked up one atop the other.