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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 produced 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. It illustrates and explains <i>The Ghost</i> illusion of a man confronted by a ghost in front of him, with an image (recto) of an actor in ghost costume beneath the stage, brightly lit and reflected onto stage, watched by a seated lady, and a written explanation of the trick (verso) titled <i>Die Geister</i><i>.</i> The trick was invented in 1858 by the English engineer Henry Dircks (1806-1873) but popularised in 1862 by the English scientist John Henry Pepper (1821-1900) after whom the trick was called <i>Pepper's Ghost</i>.\n\n\n\n","physicalDescription":"Advertising trade card for the Liebig Company illustrated with an image of <i>The Ghost</i> trick, and in vignettes a pot of the meat extract and an image of the trick with its apparatus (recto), and printed in black and red ink (verso) with details of the product and a written explanation of the trick called <i>Die Geister</i>, and a reproduction in blue ink of the signature of the product's inventor J. 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