Description: Description: These Fantastic German Victorian Trade Cards are for "Liebig" 1896 - Theater Old Berlin - (1) Mermaid Card - S499 with Great Colors. Not mounted on poster board. Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, was the producer of LEMCO brand Liebig's Extract of Meat and the originator of Oxo meat extracts and Oxo beef stock cubes. It was named after Baron Justus von Liebig, the 19th-century German organic chemist who developed and promoted a method for industrial production of beef extract." Brief History of Trade Cards by Ben CraneOver a century ago, during the Victorian era, one of the favorite pastimes was collecting small, illustrated advertising cards that we now call trade cards. These trade cards evolved from cards of the late 1700s used by tradesmen to advertise their services. Although examples from the early 1800s exist, it was not until the spread of color lithography in the 1870s that trade cards became plentiful. By the 1880s, trade cards had become a major way of advertising America's products and services, and a trip to the store usually brought back some of these attractive, brightly-colored cards to be pasted into a scrapbook. Some of the products most heavily advertised by trade cards were in the categories of: medicine, food, tobacco, clothing, household, sewing, stoves, and farm. The popularity of trade cards peaked around 1890, and then almost completely faded by the early 1900s when other forms of advertising in color, such as magazines, became more cost effective. Although trade card collecting began over 100 years ago, today's strong interest in trade cards began relatively recently. Trade cards that were bought for ten cents thirty years ago frequently bring ten dollars or more in today's market--and some have even sold for over a thousand dollars.Each Card Measures: 4-3/8 " W x 2-7/8" H. Condition: Corners and edges are slightly worn. Good Condition.Free shipping in the USA. Items are shipped out every Monday morning. Like what you see? Check out my eBay store!!08/2024Nancy
Price: 56 USD
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Brand: Liebig Co. Fleisch-Extract
Type of Advertising: Victorian Tarde Card
Color: Multi-color
Date of Creation: 1896
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
