Album of +/- 1.000 porcelain cards. Div. sizes,... Lot 806

Album of +/- 1.000 porcelain cards. Div. sizes, the largest: 35 x 28 cm, glued, protected by serpents. In an obl. in-4° album (heavily worn, plates detached). Nice collection mainly of porcelain cards in good condition, various subjects mostly in French, but also in English and Dutch. From Ghent, Bruges, Liege, Tielt, Brussels, Zelzate, Verviers, Rotterdam, Paris, Courtois, Trier, Mechelen, Maastricht, Antwerp, Manchester, Ostend, Rheims, Lokeren, Dusseldorf, Mons, Schiedam, Zele, Lyon, Cologne, Libourne, Louvain, Sheffield, Sunderland, Tournai, Menin, Saint-Nicolas, Blankenberge, Ypres, Worcestershire, Dixmude, Nevele, Charleroi, etc. Most printed by : G. Jacqmain & Vandesteene, Daveluy, Polack-Duvivier, Vanderghinster, F.&E. Gyselynck, L. Defferrez, T. & D. Hemelsoet, J. Van Brée, Delfosse, P. Cremetti, C.J. Vanryckegem, Daems, Ch. Onghena, H. Delpierre, I. Slaes, Raes, de Burggraaff, P. Degobert, etc. In general for : a tinsmith, a copper foundry, a lithographer, manufacturers of umbrellas, writing pens, corsets, bronzes, invitations (to the ball, wedding, communion, school awards), hotels, a ship commissioner, a cotton spinning and weaving mill, a pharmacist, a painter-restorer, a tailor, a bakery, a linen store, a marble fireplace store, a hairdresser, a cloth merchant, a bookbinder, a distiller, a lithographic printer, a bureau de change, a saddler, a harness maker, "a dealer in bows & arrows", an embroidery store, an optician, a change house, a zoological garden, a furniture factory, an antiques dealer, a confectioner, a mechanic builder, a wine merchant, a ship broker, a music teacher, a dentist, a gun maker, a sword cutter, a watchmaker & stuffer, a hat & bonnet store, a jewelry maker, a singing teacher, an upholsterer, a dyer, a police commissioner, a piano maker, a boot maker, a shoemaker, etc. Some names: Isidore Alex Langerock, Madame la Douairière De Schoutheete De Tervarent, Paula de Quadrade, C. Annoot-Braeckman, Kervyn Van Rockolfing De Nazareth, etc. The largest: "J. De Brie Hanssens, tailor and degreaser in Ghent" and "Hotel des Pays-Bas, Marché aux Grains, Ghent".