
This card stands for that very David Bowie`s backing band in the 1970s, "the Spiders from Mars", which included Mick Ronson, mentioned above, and Mick Woodmansey, both of whom had been in an earlier band put together by David Bowie. Their fame was sealed with the 1972 album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", Ziggy Stardust being the alter ego of David Bowie.
There was also a world tour, which started in Aylesbury, went to America and Japan, and ended at the Hammersmith Odeon, on the 3rd of July, 1973, when David Bowie announced it was the last show of the tour, and the last the band would ever do.
This set is much more modern-looking, especially to the back, than many of the Liebig cards we feature, for it is simply text, there is neither an image to one side, nor a large signature across the back, this having been miniaturised and moved to the front in the small box at the bottom on the left hand side.
The full set shows six different spiders
- L'epeire diademe (Araneus diadematus) - the European Garden Spider
- L'epeire a cornes (Epeira cornuta) - the furrow spider
- L'epeire a queue (Epeira Caudata) - the long horned orb weaver
- L'agroeca brune (Agroeca brunnea) - the fairy lamp spider
- L'araignee tapissiere (Cteniza fodiens) - trapdoor spider
- L'argyronete (Argyroneta aquatica) - the diving bell spider
It was issued in several languages, Belgian (as "Art Constructif de l`Araignee), German (as "Baukunst der Spinne"), Italian and Swiss (both as "l`Arte Construttiva del Ragno") and in Dutch (as "de Bouwkunst der Spinnen").
Most of these versions can still be found easily, and cheaply, at well under £10, though you may be asked slightly more for the German set.