Card of the Day - 2026-06-24

Liebig S454
Liebig [trade : meat extract : O/S - France] "Variations Atmospheriques"/ atmospheric variations (1895) Un/6 - F.405 : S.494

Today`s card brings us a thunderstorm, and the lightning, though not so well defined, is arching on both sides of the central tree branch divider - on the left hand side it forks from the top frame to the three ball shaped clouds, and on the right hand side it forks from actually the other side of the tree branch divider down towards the hat of the girl in red. 

If you take another look though you will notice that the sheep are being driven by the dog towards the farm, i.e. further into the middle of the picture, whilst the two girls are running towards us, a very clever use of perspective.

Despite the strange title, which translates to atmospheric variations, the cards simply deal with weather that is slightly out of the ordinary and the cards are 

  • La Gelee [ice]
  • La Neige [snow]
  • La Pluie [rain]
  • Le Soleil [sunshine]
  • Le Vent [wind]
  • L`Orage [thunderstorm]

It appears that they were only issued in the French Language, but there is an oddity that is not immediately apparent, for the set is described in some dealers catalogues as "Liebig - Types of Weather I". However I cannot find the set two.