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HOW A LIEBIG PICTURE CARD IS CREATED

The Liebig set, "Les Phases de la Fabrication d'un Chromo Liebig," shows all the steps in making a Liebig trading card set. Included is a wonderful demonstration of the process, showing the development of a portrait of Liebig through six stages from just two stones to the finished image having used twelve stones. Printed in twelve colours plus gold.

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Last German typefounder

General Chat • 2024-03-19 • Ed Vermue

I'm in communication with Rainer Gerstenberg in Germany. He started with Stempel and has been casting hot metal since 1963, billing himself as "the last trained typecaster in Europe."

Re: Last German typefounder

General Chat • 2024-03-20 • Dave Hughes

Hi Ed, thanks for bringing Rainer's plight to our attention. Is there anything that ordinary members of the public can do to help?

A film about tin printing…

General Chat • 2024-03-19 • printsmurf

Corporate film made by the Vereenigde Blikfabrieken (Association of Tin Manufacturers) and the Dordrecht-based Metaalwarenfabriek. Around 1900, the demand in the Netherlands for tin packaging began...