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1910? Gold Background Cards. Liebig Company's Extract. FC: $5 either at Sacramento, Dec., '96 or Foster City, Feb., '97. Three other cards for a total of $5 from Janet Bernichon, Shirley, NY, through eBay, Nov., '02.
On the verso of each of these cards are directions in English for beef-tea, vegetable soup, and other delights. A comment printed sideways on the cards seems to claim that a first class French Chef accepted a position only when he was promised that he would be liberally supplied with Liebig's. Each of the pictures is set against a solid gold background.
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FC is the best preserved of these well-aged cards. Against a solid gold background, a crow drops a large drum of Liebig's meat extract in front of a fox with outstretched, almost pleading arms. A turtle looks on. The card was glued or mounted by its four corners, which are thus stained.
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"The Fox and the Hen": What is this fox trying to get from this hen? At any rate, he is trying to do it over two large jars of Liebig meat extract!
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FS I: The fox is insulting the stork by eating from a shallow dish. Of course, what the fox eats is Liebig meat extract!
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FS II: Now the stork, with dapper hat and pince-nez, is eating right out of the large Liebig jar, while the fox can only look on.
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