The Liebig Trade Cards was born in 1872 with the scope of selling the extract of meat (invented in that period from the Justus Von Liebig - a German chemical) following a marketing fashion also near other producers like Suchard, Cibils, Kemmerich and the warehouses "Au Bon marché". But only the Liebig Cards, thanks to catalogue already present to the end of the 800', have succeeded to emerge between all collections, to continue the emissions until 1975 and to being commercialized in all Europe.  For a period of hundred years the Liebig rapresent the styles, of the tastes, the uses and customs of the European society in the history. The collection comprises 1871 series subdivided for year. A series in kind is made up of 6 Cards. 

Images of some nineteenth-century series

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