- Lot 224

PORCELAIN CARDS: VARIOUS TRADES: coal merchants, hairdresser, bandage maker, chimney sweep... Set of 117 porcelain cards. Daveluy, Jacqmain, Defferrez, Blanchet-Blanchet (Courtrai), Vande Steene, Van Ghendt... Various dimensions. 3 very large : 275 x 363 mm. Some corners creased, 1 card heavily damaged. Established businesses in Ostend, Ghent, Bruges, Courtrai, Antwerp... Hairdressers (the majority in Flanders, "Léonard" in Liege), opticians, dentists, pharmacists (of which Deschooffs in Brussels), doctors, "Établissement hydrosudopathique du docteur De Cock à Grammont", "L. De Ruyver leech merchant" in Brussels, "Pringiers-Libeert bird stuffer" (Kortrijk, large card 145 x 210 mm), "À l'Africain perfumeries orientales & de Paris, brosserie et ganterie" (Ostend), brush and mat manufacturer... Among the largest cards: "Small bazaar ... held by Melle P. Jaspin" in Ghent (slight ring of wetness in the upper margin); "P.B. Van Moorleghem Agent van affairens en proprietaris te Gend"; "Herinnering aen den toonekkstryd van Brugge 1842" door Maetschappy van Vlaamsche Letter-en Tooneelkunde. Let us point out an astonishing card of thanks "To the neighbors who lent him their salutary intervention in the night of November 11, 1843 / Fs. De Keukelaere, grateful".