Nov 19, 2024

sale of my Collectomania business = 3 parts or one big takeover

end 2024 ... so 31 december 2024 ... at moment of writing 40 days to go ... then my whole shop will go over in other hands ... I will be there, to assist for a year 1 day a week.... I am 79 now and I will have delegated all my business ... and then this BLOG will come in really in action.

The delay was because my business, it is/was to time-consuming ... in the first place I always have been a collector ... without time for myself .... 2025 will be my own digital ERA : lectures and studies

End of year alll will have been sold and I continue with my digital archive, to examine the cards fronts and rears.

So VERY IMPORTANT is were you can help me, keep in contact and read the following carefully, because it is very complex AND please talk about my life-work, send to all collectors you know, and alos share with institues and business partners, collectors shop, dealers etc.. they will appreciate and I will too :

sale of my Collectomania business = 3 parts or one big takeover:

1. MAKE AN OFFER FOR THE WEBSITES

With or whithout Liebig stock, cards, sets, book, maps with collections

www.Collectmania.be and www.Chromo.be

With archive(s) or without = archives of choice,

2. MAKE AN OFFER FOR ALL MY AUCTIONS :

global takeover of all auctions together or

just one or more Categories of Collectomania at %

https://www.delcampe.net/nl/verzamelingen/search?search_mode=all&excluded_terms=&term=chromo&seller_ids%5B%5D=21765

3. MAKE OFFER FOR THESE COLLECTIONS :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/collectomania/albums

..... also these can be available to sell, only in the shop

As long as available (most cards we have only once ! )

That site will remain my property for use in my books,

and for my lectures, blogs, ...... coming year 2025,

and in my Virtual Museum of advertising trade cards

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You can vVISIT my shop, or websites above : beautifull collections

- Companies cards : Liebig album language-collections

- chocolate 19th Century cards.

- Including city-streets-shops in my hometown Antwerp (hundreds 1890 sets)

and more than 100 thematics subject MAPS

....................... I can also complete LIEBIG SETS and Years-language-Collections !!

tomorrow is 20 november ... so time is knocking at the door ...

Whenever you come by train or airlpane, when you phone me at arrival

then we will get you at the Station or airport and later bring you back

to expand your collecting treasures : invest and expand your collection

mail me , consult me online, or call me 00 32 475 69 28 47

come to my shop for highest discounts

nostalgic view of the first Collectomania shop in Borgerhout

text for Belgian and Netherland readers

this last one is the catalogue from 1962 auction from the Liebig Company = Antwerp

they sold their archive to support the Red Cross of Belgium

Higlights were the originals aquarelles (= the paintings) delivered to the Company by the painters appointed to deliver the aproved set, ready to be used to be copied on the lithostone

I have over 80 such serials in super condition, as prepared for the auction by the Company.

Always Welcome

Albert Van den Bosch

1960 until 31st december 2024 ........... Boss of COLLECTOMANIA

and futur start 1st January 2025 collector and digital owner of

private VIRTUAL MUSEUM for advertising cards, stone prints chromo-lithography prints

Apr 15, 2024

LUCHTVAART fotos gepubliceerd op postkaarten

Deze verzameling zijn vooral POSTKAARTEN over de eerste pioniers van de luchtvaart, dus rond 1900 à 1910. Allemaal originele postkaarten, de meeste verstuurd vanaf de luchtvaarbasis, waar de proeven plaatsvonden. Het is prachtige geschiedenis, met bewijzen op foto en op achterkant , afstempeling en beschrijving soms. Sommige zijn ze gehandtekend door de piloten. Later kwam Wereldoorlog 1 en dan komen de Zeppelins. Ook ons eigen leger van Belgie had piloten en proef- én observatievluchten Alles kan ook individueel gekocht worden.... Het zijn ongeveer 140 loten, tezamen 279 kaarten, alle in zeer goede staat. Alles kan individueel gekocht worden OF Indien ze al op veiling zijn, dan kan je erop bieden OF dan kan ik veilingen, voor U, veranderen naar een vaste prijs ..... met korting aan minus 20% vanaf 5 loten, en aan minus 30% vanaf 500 Euro. Een "=grotere korting" voor de hele partij, dat kan, .... afgehaald (of gebracht). Hoe meer U koopt, hoe goedkoper het wordt. Ik heb zeer vele zulke verkoop-themas. Vraag info en ik stuur U de link (honderden thema-partijen voor elk zoekwoord). . Ik heb zeer vele zulke verkoop-themas. Vraag info en ik stuur U de link voor Uw gezocht thema ... er zijn honderden thema-partijen voor elk zoekwoord Mij opbellen voor meer kan ook : 00 32 (0) 475 69 28 47 Veel plezier met deze overgebleven artifacten, gelukkig goed bewaard .... dank zij verzamelaars ! één voor één bestuderen kan op volgende link naar al deze verkopen in loten postkaarten. U kan ze één voor één bekijken en tellen, want in vele loten zitten meerdere kaarten :

143 loten POSTKAARTEN Luchtvaart Pioniers in veiling én aan vaste prijs

Nov 17, 2023

2023 November 17 - some encouraging words before the New Years wishes depart.

- Creme Liebig is a collection appart, here are some Albums with partly full sets and incomplete set-cards

insert next line , in the adres-line of your browser IF folowing link does not work

Please refer to the number that I have laid on the pages, if you need info ; via email

- link to save &: https://www.flickr.com/photos/collectomania/albums/72177720300937864/page1

- We do not attend bourses or international meetings anymore, due to our age : 78 now

but still are very active, just call me 00 32 475 69 28 47 to visit you

- We have no regrets about leaving Ebay, it was a wise decision, .....and are still very active in Antwerp and on our auctions :

link to a small part of our auction, change the language in upper corner right on
the auction-site

please visit all our webistes www.chromo.be

and www.collectomanbia.be

Aug 4, 2023

please visit my upgraded websites

www.chromo.be

and

http//www.collectomania.be

and enjoi browsing through my collections for sale

have fun

Albert

Jul 12, 2023

Ephemera and 19th century publicity Liebig, Cibils and other tradecards

Collectomania Paradise for 19th trade cards collectors

click on above link and meet Albert Van den Bosch in his shop

and go here to see 100.000 of my cards :

more than 100.000 trade cards

It is now 2023 July 12th

We had a few rough years, due to Corona .....

- most international London, Paris, USA "fairs" did disappear for months

- so we sold our Truck and also our Home-Shop-house

- and we stopped traveling

- and, since 1990 internet was my passion, = so international business "as usual" continued by mail

- AND once a collector = always a collector : swapping & trading & exchanging went on

- 2021 Ebay got hungry and could not be reached anymore by phone : so we left Ebay

https://www.collectomania.be/default.aspx?reeksnr=Ebay&lang=en&item=search&txtsearch=ebay&btnsearch=Search

evaluated sales on EBAY here is all my feedback from EBAY

Now all my Ebay sales have been cancelled, If you had interest, then email me ... they are stocked in my archive.

I have 2274 super positive feedbacked sales. I did quit for many reasons. We thank our many buyers … i am confident that they were always VERY satisfied with my service , and hope to meet you back at my other auctions, websites and facebook, look for Collectomania, Antiquariaat Albert van den Bosch or use this link in facebook Albert Van den Bosch or through my websites www.chromo.be and www.collectomania.be <

I will make me happy if old clients would send me a note ... have a good time

Albert

May 11, 2023

INVENTORY_VIRTUAL-MUSEUM_SALES_ARCHIVE : PART 01- A : SCRAPS in maps

SCRAPS_PART_01a ..... in MAP 01 to 09

19th century each chromo fotograped SCRAPS MAP09 -Flowers blumen bloemen manden kransen planten GLANS BILDER

Jan 20, 2022

Winkelhuis is reeds verkocht

Archief en burreel kan dus bij U thuis, of eender waar anders , de vestiging is onbelangrijk, dit is zuiver internet-handel.

Onze handel : inkopen en schattingen nog steeds in de winkel alsook bij klant thuis. Verkopen gaan gewoon verder via onze websites en veilingen alsook : op ons nieuw winkel-adres :

Collectomania - Schotensteenweg 173 - Deurne 2100

Albert Van den Bosch heet U STEEDS WELKOM, door Corona liefst op afspraak … tel 0475692847

OVERNAME

is gepland op lange termijn, maar kan ook direct indien geinteresseerde voldoende ervaring heeft en dat wil

Door de familale mithochondriale genetische ziekte die onze dochters in zijn greep heeft, én met het oog op onze hoge leeftijd …zijn wij op zoek, naar de toekomst toe, naar een overnemer. Een enthoesiast verzamelaar, of ondernemende handelaar of geinteresseerde in een nieuwe beroepswending. Het beroep is zeer fascinerend en geeft grote voldoening. Dat komt vooral doordat alle voorwerpen die wij te koop stellen steeds een artistieke inbreng hebben van tekenaars, schilders, fotografen, drukkers, ontwerpers, kunstenaars

Er zijn 2 archieven :

- alles te koop op websites

- het andere archief zijn de persoonlijke verzamelingen : zeer gespecialiseerd naar ---druksels --- gedrukt vóór 1900; alle soorten kaarten, folders, plakaten, reklame. Bijvoorbeeldook postkaarten, zichtkaartenmenukaarten, adreskaarten, folders en publiciteit op kaarten met thematische afbeeldingen.

Ook mogelijk is uithalen van grote deel-verzamelingen om daar mee aan de slag te gaan..

Het geheel is de Overname van het Antiquariaat + virtueel met katalogen, websites, mobiele standplaats voor verzamelmarkten, verzamelbeurzen, standplaatsen in binnen en buitenland, klantenbestand.

gelieve mij te kontakteren, voor een afspraak in Antwerpen 0475 69 28 47

Oct 26, 2020

Oct 21, 2020

INVENTORY_VIRTUAL-MUSEUM_SALES_ARCHIVE : PART 01- B : SCRAPS in maps 10 to must be defined when complete (10 more to go)

INVENTORY_VIRTUAL-MUSEUM_SALES_ARCHIVE : SCRAPS PART 01-B

Inventory retirement sale : click on the following link, to so see album below text

SCRAPS in map 10 : Animals, dwarfs, bird cages, occupations and children

19th century each chromo fotograped (count yourself ) SCRAPS_MAP11_dogs, Mops,Teckel,Windhond GLANS BILDERMops,Teckel,Windhond

PARTS to come :

- Advertising Poulain Baron & many other advertising choclate ect.... , dogs, cats ( 3 maps ), anthropomorph, children and Persons (5 maps), Cirkus .....

updating day by day, until all scraps are photographed, a hell of a job :

will decide in a few weeks what to do to compensate and work out a new system ... what a lost time. Albert

Oct 15, 2020

INVENTORY_VIRTUAL-MUSEUM_SALES_ARCHIVE : PART 10 Dynasty

all parts get a number from 01 to 99 subject related

PART 10 to define better Dynasty

Dynasty for sale at Delcampe :more than 300 lots ( approximatly 3000 cards)

LOT of ALL ( more than 315 Delcampe sales) , ALL my postcards related to royal families, all countries, 20th century

Item n° #978735241

all my Royalty related sales at Delcampe

Sep 30, 2020

INVENTORY / VIRTUAL MUSEUM / SALES /ARCHIVE (introduction)

30 September 2020

INVENTORY also VIRTUAL MUSEUM also all our SALES worldwide and ARCHIVE = ephemera archive : COLLECTOMANIA collection of maps and albums

104.000 photos to organise, will be organised during folowing years ... so lots of work todo, you can click on the link and save it, to study all the albums. The titles will mention how many images and SUBJECT title ... all is for sale somewhere in my shop, and on my internet sites at fixed prices and many on auctions.

as long as not organised better, here you can see lots of partly organised trade cards in albums :

click on this link to see 104.000 fotos, thematic albums ENJOY !

contact me for more info ....

to mail me click on this line : Albert Van den Boschkynet.be

This Blog will be a try-out for bringing in all our photographs of trade cards : fifty years collecting Advertising Ephemera presented online on many platforms in all languages AND suplemented with for-sale in our retirement sales So same-time-show : our sales and archive as exposition in our Virtual Museum

So I start now, begin october 2020 with the dividing our inventory-collections : 600 maps, one map at a time : each map fully photograped and beeing on sale somewhere (links will show you where when brought in auction). Prices will go down 30% if aquiring 3 to 5 maps of a collection. And when buying all maps of a collection price will be 40% down. If buying FULL archive then discount is 50%.

As example you can follow as a start, the evolution of my a SCRAP-collection of more than 20 maps, 10 BIG albums and some boxes filled with scraps. This full collection is far too extended

SCRAPS chromos GLANS BILDER,PRE 1900, 19 maps thematic +7 maps PUB, +10 albums 30X40cm, anno 1880 à 1890, 1000nds

1000nds of photos .... so impossible to describe and let see all the necessary information in auctions which allows 12 to 100 photos .... this BLOG is the answer to this constraint

So there will follow a dividing in smaller parts, each day one or 2, and this µI will do week by week. So in 2 years all wil be online and the images, to be provided in catalogues, will never be lost.

To see all my collections being divided, follow this Blog and see being born small parts of collections in blocks : 600 maps to be mapped in directories, which will evoluate to the Virtual museum.

Of course there will also be individual sales too ..... and these are not mentioned in the big Delcampe 20maps+10scrapalbums sale but are included in total price in which are ALL "scraps in sale" as wel as "to bring in sale, but still not photographed" :

Here are all our scraps at DELCAMPE :

https://www.delcampe.net/nl/verzamelingen/sell/item-for-sale/ongoing?search=scrap&criteria=title

and all our scraps = die-cuts at EBAY

https://www.ebay.com/sh/lst/active?catType=storeCategories&q_field1=title&q_value1=die-cut&action=search

reference (must get be numbered ) SCRAPS_MAP1_horses (and donkeys)

ALL the Maps with photographed and on the internet :

SCRAPS_MAP1_horses (and donkeys) = following link for all scraps already photographed :

continued at

click on this line to goto next page

Sep 29, 2020

october_2020_ENGLISH

Preparing INVENTORY

Thanks for reading this blog. We have won 4 years ... now preparing our archive to give it free for consult by students and collectors, digital century :

Purpose is to find a way to bring structure and effectiveness for research ... and at same time have to run business as usual and do no work double.

So scanning and at same time make structure by titling and referring numbers : to be presented in THIS BLOG (300.000 pictures) AND all this in digital maps presenting all prints in my websites. Because I decided to use these websites further, because they were weaved in my brain 50 years ago, and still serve the purpose wherefore I designed them. Now they will serve the New Times Coming and my websites will be changing only slightly. Same subject related : only printed advertising Ephemera printed both sides of card with lithographic paints ( printing ink ). Those last 25 years of my life I intend to transform the archive to digital and so I can sell all my collections and don't need my archive anymore.

So we will NOT need 5 more years to finish all necessary changes and further improvements. All will be finished end next year 2021 to serve collectors better.

My goal is : to transform all my info gathered in collections, catalogues and research by introducing them in a virtual museum that will show all kind of tradecards on photo in right directories. Around 2022 catalogues will be enlarged and remain free to study.

VIRTUAL MUSEUM Collectomania, the website will be a digital archive platform. Just like www.Collectomania.be (since 45 years) for subject and themes on trade cards, as well as the various presentations of these on paper-cards, vignettes, in sets or odd cards, on stamps, on visit cards, on flyers, pamphlets, folders (double, triple, ect... ), booklets, postcards, posters, affiches, menucards, tickets, calendars, games, boxes, leaflets, scraps, die-cuts and all kind of material : thick hard paper, metal, hardboard to cigarette paper ... small items as stamps to meters wide Wall Affiches ... printed in one color to 24 colors ... printers and their hand-press lithos, as well as wood-block printing, gravures, etchings, chromo-litho's and all other printing techniques and material and forms to print on.

CATALOGUES online, free to use as always www.chromo.be . I used this website to host only the cards I collected myself, and NO other ... since 45 years for "Au Bon Marché", for Extract of Meat Companies like Liebig and Cibils, Chocolate Companies like Suchard, Guérin Boutron and many other. From now on All tradecard sets with their printers, with their illustrators, sets descriptions (all photographed), their variations and printing differences during 150 years ... catalogue numbers in all countries and languages, titles ... this project is a 10 year project. So not extended shortly.

THE SELLING PART

So we start now, begin october 2020 with the dividing our inventory-collections : 20 to 50 maps, to on map at a time : each map fully photograped and beeing one sale. Prices will go down 30% if aquiring more maps of a collection. And when buying all maps of a collection price will be 40% down.

As example you can follow a SCRAP-collection of more than 20 maps, 10 BIG albums and some boxes filled with scraps. This full collection is far too extended

SCRAPS chromos GLANS BILDER,PRE 1900, 19 maps thematic +7 maps PUB, +10 albums 30X40cm, anno 1880 à 1890, 1000nds

1000nds of photos .... so impossible to describe and let see all the necessary information. So there will follow a dividing in smaller parts this week

To see all my collections being divided, follow this Blog and see being born small parts of collections in blocks : 600 maps to go in directories

If you have in mind a special collection to start next week, just eamail me

These are some examples of coming collections that will be divided:

brands : chocolate, cacao, coffee, meat extract, bazars, stoves, music, sewing

Special brands with enormous choice : Liebig as example : ( =Dutch, French, German, Italy, GB etc...), sets of 6 or more, Table cards, original paintings, Menucards, Callendars, other PuB, folders, cooking books

countries : expeditions, military, insects, mamals, flowers, flags,

forms : scraps, postcards, menucards, cigarette cards, calendars, vignettes, etiquettes/labels, posterstamps, etc......postcards, illustrators, film, music scores

subjects, themes : sports ( Tennis, mountain climbing), feast days ( easter, new year, christmas), dogs and dog-carts, perfume, wine, champagne etc......

Next Blogs will be updated continiously, as they are both sales/auctions AND catalogue AND Virtual Museum at same time

please follow up each month .... read following ... what a disappointment :::

--->LATEST NEWS 2020 november 26th

updating day by day, until all scraps are photographed, a hell of a job :

will decide in a few weeks what to do to compensate and work out a new system ... what a lost time. Albert

Albert Van den Bosch

Aug 5, 2020

August 2020_ENGLISH

You will see the Crowd Fund happening, without cost for users when the websites change around 2022 ... with all catalogues for all edited trade cards.

Due to Corona we were handicapped in sending ( some packages to USA took 2 months ... now it is better 3 weeks to one month) ... please accept my apologies that I could not help.

The internet takes advantage : traveling collectors visiting me in Antwerp ... do limit themselves to only internet handlings on my websites and on the auctions we work with.

so far, so good

End 2021 inventory will be presented end of year, meanwhile we continue most of our sellings at

https://www.delcampe.net/nl/verzamelingen/store/collectomania

and

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=albert.vandenbosch&_sop=1

Also my own websites are stil working smoothly , but when you use the CHROME browser you will have to choose for advanced settings and agree, that can take weeks to months, I don't know when they will change that :

www.chromo.be catalogues for Liebig, Cibils, Au Bon Marché, Suchard

and

www.collectomania.be ephemera advertising cards, worldwide from 1800 to first Worldwar, further : only litho-printed, printers and illustrators mentioned, international and regional, brands ... complete sets, (stories, caricatures, design, art related) on menucards, calendars, events related : expositions, jubilees, dated and marked in catalogues or if not : VERY scarse to find cards.

Lots of work to do, always at your service !

stay strong in these Corona times

Albert.van.den.bosch@skynet.be

Apr 25, 2020

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saturday April 25th

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Collectors definitively do'nt like the commercial aspect of what I had in mind.

So . .. NO CROWD FUND .. no investments ... there will be raised simply a new website Free project in 2022

I got only feedback and questions of investors ... and just that was not my intention.

So for me things will become a lot easier : initially i took to many work on me. It is a relief that things get much more uncomplicated.

So :

- no auctions on www.Chromo.be itself.

- all regio-managers, will have to do ALL themselves (accountancy, organise their members, fairs, auctions and so on). They will get no support financial or whatever from our organisation...... but they can inscribe in 2022 to the organising-website FREE, and ask help in a forum of volunteers. All will be FREE but we will have to think and brainstorm this over and over. We will work this out during 2020.... fill in what we need from software in 2021 and ... to end and finish ... being operational during 2022.

This will give me the time to administer and finish my own business smoothly in following years.

I can now see the NEW WEBSITE 2022 ( name has to be invented ) as my latest project in the collecting-world. My wife and I are 75 and that new platform will be my last good deed.

So there is no need anymore for a crowd funding. The new-website will just live on paying advertisers (fairs, shops, commercial catalogues, ... All those who Paypalled investments are paid back.

My websites www.chromo.be en www.collectomania.be will be sold or continued ............... or Franchised with a contract for help during 2 years by myself. All to be thought over.

All my personal collections and the shops archive will be sold out. Lots of these collections will be sold, as in the past already for 50 years :

at Delcampe, as seller COLLECTOMANIA https://www.delcampe.net/nl/verzamelingen/store/collectomania

and

at Ebay, as seller

Albert.vandenbosch

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=albert.vandenbosch&_sop=1

There will be a lot of combined lots coming at those internet auctions so regulary check the websites.

- So there will be made a new website (or maybe Chromo.be suits us) and that will be a FRAME-website-platform. With agenda for fairs and international conventions, shows, musea and expositions worldwide ... that will be fun.
- Such calendar will also contain regional club-evenings, meetings ... flea-markets, brocantes ect..
- Websites of sole collectors ....
- a real big SEARCH engine only to related collecting : themas, regios, illustrators, editors, brands, old international Firms that edited series : chocolate editions, tobacco, sportclubs, collectors-lists, catalogues, with prices ( fairs, sellers, merchants, collector sales), and also catalogues with only Star-reference to rarity- lists and info about illustrators, their autographs and abbreviations they used (many had many !!! )

- we will pick out in ALL auctions worldwide the collecting-pieces of our interest and SHARING this ... instead of beeing lonely predaters. The 10,000nds of topic-forums will keep us so busy and joy-fullfilled that it will be our Heaven-on-Earth

ALL this means that we will be just a service-giving-website driven by cooperation of collectors worldwide providing info and realtime

All this will be a must-site where you can orientate in your region but also when travelling

Once a month we will brainstorm further.....and if interested you can mention this to me in an email with CV and your interests. I promised the guys and girl who did react to collaborate that they are considered by me as "chosen" for the new project 2022 and will be rewarded in 2022 by options and responsibilities in the new Platform.

I will now do more concentration on my business and sellings and will continue on this blog with a 2-monthly-blog and keep all interested updated

keep other collectors informed who don't know me yet, and please spread this words

and don't forget : ............ Please stay healthy in these CORONA times