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 :

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

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

week2020/0007_ENG

saturday April 25th

week2020/0007_ENGLISH

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