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In partnership with the Belgian engineer George Christian Giebert Liebig's Extract of Meat Company started production of the extract in 1865 in Fray Bentos, Uruguay and Colón, Panama, and around 1870 started to publish series of coloured lithographic cards that continued until 1975 when they had published more than 11,000 different cards in sets of six or twelve. \n\nThis card is one of the <i>Magic Revealed</i> set produced in 1894. 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