How do I restore Contacts from an archived file?

I have found that my Contacts have been corrupted by a program that was designed to find duplicates. Many missing contact listing, text data removed from many more.
I have an archived copy of the data from the program that precedes the problem, and I have Time Machine backups that go back before this occurred.
I cannot find information on how to restore from either the archived contact list file, or how to restore just the contacts from the Time Machine backup
I am using OSX Mountain Lion, 10.8.4.
Any help appreciated....

Delete the contacts in Contacts, double click on the archive (.abbu) file.
Or
Open Contacts, enter Time Machine, scroll back to the time when the contacts were fine, restore from there.

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