MUSEUM FOR OLD TECHNIQUES

DIRECTORY OF BELGIAN TRADE CATALOGS

RCB stands for the Repertorium van de Belgische Handelscatalogi (Directory of Belgian Trade Catalogues). It is an online aid to trace trade catalogues published in Belgium before c. 1950, in public collections.

The RCB has search entries via title, company name, location, period, year of publication, RCB code en subject.

---

A search for more than one word will find pages that contain all of the words. Use quotation marks to search for a phrase. Also use quotes for text with punctuation or special characters.

Search examples

Enter	To find pages containing
apple pie	both 'apple' and 'pie'
"apple pie"	the phrase 'apple pie'
apple -pie	'apple', omitting those containing 'pie'
food -"apple pie"	'food', omitting those containing 'apple pie'
apple "-pie"	the words 'apple' and '-pie'
apple - pie	'apple', '-', and 'pie'
"pie:"	the word 'pie' with a colon
"pie=tasty"	the phrase 'pie=tasty'

Some special characters need to be enclosed in quotes, including the colon (:), equals sign (=), single quote (') and double quote(").