Liebig

My Liebig Collection

Something about myself : I will be 61 very soon and live hapily in Belgium with my wif Lieve (thats her name) and 2 daughters Ann and Els. I have a grandson of 18 and his name is JAN, my youngest grandson is MANU and he is 7. He likes my collections too

I collected, aged 6 in 1950, and began with choclat cards (which were very popular in Belgium at that time). At school, we exchanged them to complete the sets, which had to be glued in Disney albums
: cinderella, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Gulliver ... They were created by Walt Disney, printed for Biscuits De Beukelaer in my hometown Antwerp, and they were fantastic : my favorite was Sleeping Beauty.

Afterwards grandfather gave me my firsts tobaco insert cards; which he collected around 1900 ! My favorite were fancy dressed ladies, conquerors and Kings

Around 1868 the first tradecards were given away by the LIEBIG EXTRACT OF MEAT COMPANY. As popularity and sales improved and the company grew for a 100 years, they edited and distributed more than 2000 sets of tradecards

I am in love with those old hard (to find) cards in all languages and full of collor.

I want to complete the LIEBIG - collection, since I still miss spare sets and odd cards. This my priority for now

still missing

cards with 1 & 2 medals (back side)
menucards from LEMCO (=(L)iebig (E)xtract of (M)eat (Co)mpany
die cuts
small calendars & big ones
all other languages than French, Italian & German
delighted to find a big English, RUSSIAN & Bohemian collections since from those languages I still miss a lot
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always traveling to buy and admire all kind of collections (I like real big ones !)

Thanks for your visit back to home page

Albert.Van.den.Bosch@skynet.be