Card of the Day - 2026-07-16

Liebig Les Eventails
LIEBIG [trade : meat extract : O/S : France] "Les Eventails" / the fans (1913) Un/6 - F.1080 : S.1081

So apologies for this, I forgot to press schedule, it was there but did not show up until I noticed, which was when I was coming in to add the back to what turned out to be the non existent front. 

This card teels a bit of an untruth, for India is not a single nation, it is home to over 1.4 billion people, and there are many languages spoken, over twenty, with Hindi and Bengali being the two most widely spoken tongues. Unsurprisingly, given the above fact, the largest number of people follow the Hindu religion, but many also follow Islam, because India has one of the biggest of all Muslim populations. Then there are Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, Punjabis, Sikhs, and Zoroastrians, as well as Christians. Sufice to say that a card purporting to show "India" would only show a very small proportion of its flavour.

This set shows fans, the hand held type, not the ones who follow their favourite star. It`s also available in Italian, as "I Ventagli", and its a very attractive set, with a top corner inset showing a typical fan of that country and the main picture being people of that country using the fan, though some of them are using more flourish than others.

There is an "odd one out", which is modern times, and it shows people in a box at the opera, rather than a country. 

The countries are 

English - French - Italian
Ancent Egypt - Egypte - Egitto
Arabia - Arabe - Arabia
India - Indes - Indie
Japan - Japon - Giappone
Modern Times - Moderne - Moderno
Persia - Perse - Persia