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
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 %
3. MAKE OFFER FOR THESE COLLECTIONS :
..... 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