You can find here only a selection of the most special cards in the collection.

 

POLITICS

 

Presidents and a lot of ambassadors, consuls, (prime) ministers, members of parliament, mayors and other people known from politics of different countries and continents;

 

Members of the European parliament and the European Committee,

 

President Kabila of Congo,

 

Mr Rüütel, President of Estonia,

 

Prof. Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament,

 

Signed business card and photograph of President László Sólyom, President of the Republic of Hungary,

 

Mr Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas, former President of the Republic of Lithuania,

 

Mr Martti Ahtisaari, former President of the Republic of Finland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2008,

 

The Honourable Attorney General Mr Kenneth Baddon of Saint Helena,

 

Mr. Max Maxfield, Secretary of State of Wyoming, USA,

 

Barbara Roberts, Governor of the State of Oregon 1991 – 1995,

 

Signed card of The Honourable John Harvard, P.C., O.M., Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (Canada),

 

The Honourable John C. Crosbie, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada,

 

Mrs. Ásta R. Jóhannesdóttir, Speaker of Alþingi, Parliament of Iceland,

 

Honourable Lloyd Snelgrove, President of Treasury Board, Minister Responsible for Corporate Human Resources and MLA of Alberta (Canada),

 

Signed card of Governor Charlie Crist, Gouvernorof the State of Florida, USA,

 

Mr. Michael A. Mauro, Secretary of State of Iowa, USA,

 

The Honorable Beth Chapman, Secretary of State of Alabama, USA,

 

The Honorable Mary Herrera, Secretary of State of New Mexico, USA,

 

George A. Sinner, Governor of the State of Noord-Dakota 1985 – 1992,

 

The Honorable Matthew Dunlap, Secretary of State of Maine, USA,

 

Mr. William M. Gardner, Secretary of State of New Hampshire, USA,

 

Mr Gerry Adams, member of the Assembly of Northern Ireland,

 

Rt Hon Dr Ian R K Paisley MP MLA, First Minister of Northern Ireland

 

Business card and photograph of the Honourable Minister Vic Toews, President of the Treasury Board of Canada,

 

Mr. Ben Lujan, Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Mexico, USA,

 

Signed card of Dale Ford, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and American League Umpire, well known for being behind the plate for Game 6 of the 1986 World Series,

 

Premier Ed Stelmach, Premier of Alberta, Canada,

 

Dr. Angela Merkel, member of Deutscher Bundestag and now Bundeskanzler,

 

Bernd Heynemann, member of Deutscher Bundestag and before international footballreferee,

 

Signed business card of Mr Philip Schyle, Président de l'assemblée of French Polynesia,

 

Business card of Flanders House in New York,

 

Mr. I.W. Opstelten, mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands,

 

Signed card of Paul Helminger, mayor of the city of Luxembourg, capital of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,

 

Dr Heinz Schaden, mayor of Salzburg, Austria,

 

Laine Jänes, mayor of Tartu, Estonia,

 

Councillor Alison Firth, Lord Mayor of the City of Manchester, UK,

 

Executive Mayor Alderman Dan Plato of the City of Cape Town, South Africa,

 

Mrs. Eleni Mavrou, Mayor of Nicosia, Cyprus,

 

Mr. Patrick Janssens, mayor of Antwerp, Belgium,

 

The Right Honorourable the Lord Mayor Michael Harbison of Adelaide, Australia,

 

Mrs. Amanda Stone, mayor of  the City of Yarra, Australia,

 

Mr. David Cooper, mayor of Knox City, Australia,

 

Mr. Larry O’Brien, Mayor of the City of Ottawa, Canada,

 

Mayor Peter Kelly, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada,

 

Mayor Tim Johnston of the City of Thompson, Canada,

 

Rt. Hon the Lord Mayor Ian David Luder BSc(Econ) Alderman, Lord Mayor of the City of London, UK,

 

Councillor Christopher Davies, Lord Mayor of Bristol, UK,

 

Councillor Surjan Singh Duhra, Lord Mayor of Wolverhampton, UK,

 

Councillor Mike Storey, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, UK,

 

Louis Tobback, Mayor of Leuven, Belgium,

 

Mayor Pinar Yesil of the City of Greater Dandenong, Australia,

 

Mayor Clifford J. Lee of the City of Charlottetown, Canada,

 

Signed business card and photograph of Mr Jón Gnarr, Mayor of the city of Reykjavik, Iceland,

 

Signed business card of Mr Frank Jensen, Mayor of the city of Copenhagen, Denmark,

 

Business card of Mr Jim Watson, Mayor of the city of Ottawa, Canada,

 

Business card of Mrs Rita Ottervik, Mayor of the city of Trondheim, Norway,

 

lic.oec. Karlheinz Ospelt, mayor of Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein,

 

Dr. Franz Dobusch, mayor of Linz, Austria,

 

Mayor Martin J. Chávez, Mayor of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA,

 

The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor, Councillor Naomi Long, of the City of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK,

 

Business card and signed photograph of Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore MP, Australia,

 

drs. Alexander B. Sakkers, mayor of Eindhoven, Netherlands,

 

Fritz Schramma, mayor of Cologne, Germany,

 

His Worship Mayor Gordon Van Tighem, mayor of the city of Yellowknife, Canada,

 

His Worship Mayor David Miller, Mayor of the City of Toronto, Canada,

 

Alderman Rob Valentine MACS, Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart, Australia,

 

Councillor Nickolas Varvaris, Mayor of the City of Kogarah, Australia,

 

Ronald ("Ron") William Clarke is Mayor of Gold Coast City in Queensland, Australië, a former Australian athlete (bronze medal in the 10,000 m at the 1964 Summer Olympics and breaking 19 world records) and writer,

 

Mr Dave Cieslewicz, Mayor of the City of  Madison, Wisconson, USA,

 

Ms. Bev Buckway, mayor of the City of Whitehorse, Canada,

 

Mrs. Eibhlin Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland,

 

Lord Mayor Donal Counihan, mayor of Cork, Ireland,

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NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES

 

Professor Eric Maskin, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007,

 

A signed business card and photograph of Mr. Frederik Willem de Klerk, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1993 and ex-president of South-Africa,

 

Signed business card of Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2001,

 

Signed business card of Prof. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2004,

 

Signed business card of Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobelprize  Laureate Economics in 2001,

 

Signed business card of Prof. Mario Renato Capecchi, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2007,

 

Signed business card of Professor Emeritus Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 1981,

 

Signed business card of Professor H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 2002,

 

Signed card of Prof. Werner Arber, Nobelprijs Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1978,

 

Signed business card of Prof. Douglas D. Osheroff, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 1996,

 

Signed business card of Prof. Emeritus Robert F. Curl Jr., Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 1996,

 

2 different signed business cards of Professor Robert C. Merton, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics in 1997

 

Signed business card of Prof. Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 2000,

 

Signed card of Prof. Richard R. Schrock, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 2005,

 

Prof. Dr. Robert Huber, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 1988,

 

Professor Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2005,

 

Signed business card of Dr. John C. Mather, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2006 and working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

 

Ms Melissa Fleming, Spokesperson of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – IAEA shared Nobel Peace Prize 2005 with Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei,

 

 

 

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HOTELS - RESTAURANTS

 

“*****Hotel&Beach Resort Al Hamra Fort” in the Arabic Emirates,

 

the “Snowcastle” in Finland,

 

the “Ice hotel” in Sweden,

 

“Restaurant El Bulli” with chief cook Ferran Adrià in Spain, 4 times on a row elected for the best restaurant in the world (for your info: the restaurant is only open between April and October and got in 2003 around 400.000 reservation requests),

 

Brasserie De Wijzerplaat in Leopoldsburg, located in the former farm Mangelschots where William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington and married to Kathleen Kennedy who was a sister of the Amerikan president John F. Kennedy, was killed in action in World War II at the 9th of September 1944,

 

Toprestaurant Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark,

 

Carme Ruscalleda (of Restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar near Barcelona) is the only woman in Spain that has a three Michelin star restaurant, the fourth in the world and the only one in the world to have a total of five stars (two more just got for her restaurant in Tokyo, Japan),

 

Paul Bocuse, a French chef, considered one of the finest cooks of the 20th century and one of the most prominent chefs associated with the nouvelle cuisine,

 

Peter Goossens, chief/owner of Restaurant Hof van Cleve and in 2007 place 14 and in 2008 place 28 in The S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants,

 

Business card of the Huka Lodge in New Zealand, consistently listed amongst the top retreats of the world,

 

Restaurant Comme-chez Soi in Brussel,

 

Alinea Restaurant, toprestaurant in Chicago,

 

Schlosshotel Lerbach - Gourmetrestaurant “Dieter Müller” *** in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany,

 

Lunch lounge "Het Gebaar" in Antwerp (Belgium) of topchef Roger van Damme,

 

2 business cards of the 2 restaurants of Pierre Gagnaire in Paris,

 

Restaurant Oud Sluis of  topchef Sergio Herman (one of the main representatives of the new generation of chefs in Europe) in the Netherlands,

 

El Rinconcillo, the oldest tapasbar in Sevilla, fundada en 1670,

 

Antigua Casa de Guardia, fundada en 1840, the oldest tapasbar in Malaga,

 

The famous Papa Joe's Jazzkokal in Köln,

 

 

 

SPORT

 

Eddy Merckx, the best cycle runner of all times,

 

Gaston Baron Roelants, gold medal 3000 m steeple Olympic Games in 1964,

 

Anky van Grunsven from The Netherlands, Olympic Gold Medal individual dressage in 2000, 2004 and 2008 and Olympic Silver Medal in 1996,

 

Joel Smets, 4 times World Champion Moto Cross,

 

Jerzy Klempel (°1953 -  +2004), Polish handballplayer with the most caps for the national team (224) en won the bronze medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics

 

Constant Vanden Stock (°1914 - +2008), Roger Vanden Stock, Yvon Verhoeven, René Trullemans, Michel Verschueren, Herman Van Holsbeeck, Philippe Collin of footballclub RSC Anderlecht,

 

Ulla Werbrouck, Olympic Gold Medal judo 1996 and member of the Belgian Parliament,

 

Kurt Deklerck, Belgian, European and World Champion snooker and pool,

 

Morten Stig Christensen, Secretary General of the Danish Handball Association,

 

László Sinka, Secretary General of the Hungarian Handball Federation,

 

Þórður Guðjónsson, General Secretary of footballclub FC ÍA Akranes (Iceland),

 

Willy Fraipont, Secretary General of the Royal Belgian Swimming Federation

 

Members of the board of “Koninklijke Veloclub Het Vliegend Wiel v.z.w.”, the organisation of the cycling race Ghent-Wevelgem,

 

Raymond van Barneveld, professional Dutch dartsplayer, worldchampion 1997/1999,

 

 

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OTHER

 

Jean Toots Thielemans, the world famous harmonica solist,

 

Reinhold Meissner, at the moment the best mountaineer of the world,

 

The high command of the Swiss guard in Vatican City,

 

The members of the Executive Staff of the Police Department of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA,

 

Dirk Denoyelle, corporate and conference comedian,

 

Paul Ibou, the worldwide known graphic designer and publicist,

 

The Murree Brewery Co. Ltd. In Pakistan,

 

General Ľubomír Bulík, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic,

 

Löwen-Apotheke in Trier, the oldest pharmacy in Germany,

 

Dixie Dansercoer, the man who loves ice and adventure,

 

Bishop Frans Wiertz, Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands,

 

Erima Henare, the ex-CEO of the Maori Language Commission, in Maori language,

 

Carol Buckley, Founder and Executive Director, of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee,

 

Nicky Vankets, Belgian Fashion Designer,

 

Mr. Drs. C.H.A. Hogewoning, Principal Secretary to Her Majesty the Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands,

 

Major- General retired J.J.J.M.M. (J.³M.²) Vos from the Netherlands, President of the Association of Veteran- and present Stoottroepers,

 

 

 

 

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Annex to the collection :

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Signed official photograph of the French ex-president Jacques Chirac, from who I received 2 years in row personal Christmas wishes,

 

Signed official photograph of the French president Nicolas Sarkozy,

 

Signed photograph of Mrs Helen Zille, the Premier of the Western Cape and as Mayor of Cape Town selected as World Mayor of the Year in 2008,

 

A signed photograph of the Secretary of State of the U.S. Hillary Rodham Clinton,

 

A signed photograph of The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph Harper, Prime Minister of Canada,

 

Signed photograph of Mikheil and Sandra Saakashvili with their children, President and First Lady of Georgia,

 

Signed photograph of Fürst Hans-Adam II. und Fürstin Marie des Fürstentums Liechtenstein,

 

Signed photograph of Erbprinz Alois und Erbprinzessin Sophie des Fürstentums Liechtenstein,

 

Signed photograph of the former President of Latvia Mr. Guntis Ulmanis,

 

Signed photograph of the former President of Latvia, Mrs Vaira Vike-Freiberga,

 

Official photograph of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada,

 

Photograph of Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia , Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC,

 

Signed photograph of President Bronisław Komorowski of Poland,

 

Signed photograph of President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia,

 

Signed photograph of President Dalia Grybauskaitė of Lithuania,

 

Signed photograph of President Christian Wulff of Germany,

 

Signed photograph of Mr Lech Kaczyński, Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej,

 

Signed photograph of Mr. Václav Havel, writer, dissident and politicus. He was the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic,

 

Signed photograph of Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2005,

 

Signed photograph of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Ertl, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2007,

 

Signed photograph of Prof. George A. Olah, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 1994,

 

Signed photograph of Prof. Roy J. Glauber, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2005,

 

Signed photograph of Professor Finn E. Kydland, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics 2004,

 

Signed photograph of Professor Daniel Kahneman, Nobelprize  Laureate Economics in 2002,

 

Signed photograph of Dr. Martin Chalfie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008,

 

Signed photograph of Professor K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry in 2001,

 

Signed photograph of Marc Sleen, Flemish strip author with as most successful comic The adventures of Nibbs,

 

Signed photograph of Mayor Larry O’Brien, Mayor of the City of Ottawa, Canada,

 

Signed photograph of Tia Hellebaut, Olympic Gold Medal high jump 2008,

 

Signed photograph of Tom Boonen, world cycling champion 2005,

 

Signed photograph of the former alpine skier Pirmin Zurbriggen from Switzerland, won the Olympic Gold Medal in 1988 and several medals in the World Championships,

 

Signed photograph of Maarten van der Weijden, Olympic Gold Medal 10 kilometers open water swimming in 2008 after he was diagnosed with leukemia in 2001,

 

Signed photograph of Professor Robert Ballard, who found the wreck of the Titanic,

 

Signed photograph of Gordon James Ramsay, a British chef, television personality and restaurateur,

 

Photograph of Middle of the Road anno 2009 with autograph of each member,

 

Signed photograph of Tanja Dexters, miss Belgium in 1998,

 

Signed photograph of Virginie Claes, miss Belgium in 2006,