Liebig Cards

What do you do when you have collected all the cigarette card sets you want or can afford? One answer is to start collecting rarer (and more expensive) types from earlier sets. However, if you prefer something a bit more substantial for your money and still want beautifully presented cards, you could look into chromolithographs or chromos. A large number of sets on many varied subjects were issued in the UK and Europe over a similar time period as cigarette cards. The Liebig extract of meat company issued many series from the 1880s in many languages for distribution in Europe and many other companies such as Au Bon Marche and Chocolat d'Aiguebelle in France and Stollwerck in Germany issued sets of chromo cards to their customers. The Liebig cards were often issued as sets of six and it is relatively easy to find complete sets, even of issues from the 1890s. Earlier series were issued as single cards and are much harder (and expensive) to find. Cards issued by companies such as d'Aiguebelle run to larger sets and were issued singly with bars of chocolate. These sets tend to be harder to complete.

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