Huge French lottery ticket "Les gueules cassées" from 1940.

These lottery tickets were sold in the street or in small shops to help veterans.

Set of 8 French bills of exchange from 1950s with tax stamps and rubber-stamps.

Note that several bills of exchange have a hole in the lower left corner: these bills of exchange had to be stapled to the corresponding bills and had to be detached more or less cleanly once the customer had paid the expected amount.

The last photo shows the back of the bills of exchange.

These bills of exchange are financial instruments for loans between companies. Before the massive arrival of computers, these exchanges were carried out by hand as shown by these documents.

Five large air mail envelopes of different countries between the 1960s and 1980s

Vintage French postcard with a bouquet of roses from 1930s.

This postcard was edited by the Parisian Etoile company created by the photographer and industrialist Gaston Piprot, inventor of the patented process "émaillographie". This process gave an incomparable quality of photography for the time as well as a new glazed aspect in the field of the postcard.

Postcard legend: "Je ne sais pas si vous pensez toujours à moi" / "I don't know if you still think about me"

Vintage Italian postcard from Napoli from 1910s. French written back.

French religious card - First communion card from 1910s

Large French liner menu with an incredible choice of dishes.

This is the menu of February 3, 1962 aboard the liner "Flandre". The menus were different every day.

This liner made crossings between Europe and North America between 1952 and 1962 for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

French engraving representing two types of monkey by the drawer Victor Adam dating from the middle of the 19th century.

Jean-Victor Vincent Adam, born in Paris on January 28, 1801 and died in Viroflay on December 30, 1866, is a French painter and lithographer. He has illustrated numerous works and his drawings have been interpreted in engraving by Antoine François Gelée, Émile Giroux and Jean-François Pourvoyeur.

This engraving is probably the result of a reissue of the encyclopedia on wildlife of Buffon.

Set of 8 French bills of exchange from 1950s with tax stamps and rubber-stamps.

Note that several bills of exchange have a hole in the lower left corner: these bills of exchange had to be stapled to the corresponding bills and had to be detached more or less cleanly once the customer had paid the expected amount.

The last photo shows the back of the bills of exchange.

These bills of exchange are financial instruments for loans between companies. Before the massive arrival of computers, these exchanges were carried out by hand as shown by these documents.

A funny animal illustration by French painter and illustrator Ray-Lambert dating from the 1930s.

Two Vintage French postcards "A la source" et "Au bord de l'eau" from 1910s

Large 24-page French weekly newspaper "Le Gaulois du Dimanche" of November 1909 with beautiful Art Nouveau cover, many articles about history, fashion, arts, literature, music, kitchen, and many engravings and photos.

Le Gaulois is a daily French literary and political newspaper founded on July 5, 1868. It became the property of press boss Arthur Meyer and was published until 1929 before being merged with the Figaro. Due to it large size, this magazine will be sent folded in half.

Collection of correspondence of a young French man working in Romania to his parents in France between 1918 and 1921. This young man, Theo, worked for the French Economic Bureau in Romania. In spite of the turbulent times of this period that he sometimes relates, he was able to make some trips to Eastern Europe. His letters are mainly sent to his parents and his younger sister. This set includes 48 manuscript letters.

French religious card - First communion card from 1910s

Large 24-page French weekly newspaper "Le Gaulois du Dimanche" of September 1909 with beautiful Art Nouveau cover, many articles about history, fashion, arts, literature, music, kitchen, and many engravings and photos.

Le Gaulois is a daily French literary and political newspaper founded on July 5, 1868. It became the property of press boss Arthur Meyer and was published until 1929 before being merged with the Figaro. Due to it large size, this magazine will be sent folded in half.