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
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 :
next update ..... undeceded, just found out that Blogger cannot be used for my purpose ........ i lost a month of work prearing all this but it seems that it is VERY complicated for interested collectors to login ... you must be member and make a blogger-account and BLOG ... so 88 % of interested inloggers gave it up and capitulated ... so no folowers enough te keep this good work ...
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
