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Heraldryshop > Catalogue > Tea- and trading cards > Kraepelien & Holm : Coats of arms of countriesSeries information :
IntroductionKraepelien & Holm was a company based in Zeist, the Netherlands, producing (semi-)pharmaceutical products. According to the cards the company produced asthma-cigarettes, cough- and other pastilles, cocoa surrogates and similar items. At present a company with the same name is based in Oosterwolde, the Netherlands, producing liquorice. The company issued cards with arms of countries. Kraepelien & Holm was one of the many companies using this specific series. Others were Neelmeijer, Honig and Van Dijk's. Cards issued :Not all companies issued all of the 72 cards in the series. The Kraepelien & Holm cards are numbered, in the same numbering as the Van Dijk's Beschuit cards. The cards were issued with two different texts on the reverse :
  Reverse texts of the Kraepelien cards The cards were also issued with different background colours, as seen below for Brazil :
  Different combinations between colours and reverse texts are known, making the number of possible cards very large. I have only knowledge of the following cards:
                                                     
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