
Vintage Belgian postcard representing three children on...
Vintage Belgian postcard representing three children on the farm. Postcard sent in 1913.
Belgian postcard with beautiful illustration representing young girl releasing small birds from their cage. This postcard dates from 1910s. This postcard has been sent in 1910.
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Vintage Belgian postcard representing three children on the farm. Postcard sent in 1913.
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.
Booklet of 20 vintage postcards about Rabat in Morocco by French photographer Marcelin Flandrin in the 1920s. These postcards are slightly blue colored.
Some details about the photographer from wikipedia:
"Marcelin Flandrin (1889-1957) was a French military photographer.
Marcelin Flandrin settled in Morocco in 1901, where he completed his military service as a volunteer in 1912. A photographer by profession, he served in the Service Photographique des Armées (fr), completing a series of reports during the Rif War. In World War I, he served in the French Air Force, finishing as an aerial observer sending aerial shots of battles.
He settled in Casablanca, capturing the city in transformation from 1921 to 1930, publishing a book entitled Casablanca de 1889 à nos jours in 1929. In 1921, he published aerial images of a flight from Casablanca to France in L'Illustration. In 1922, he illustrated the Morocco pavilion at the Exposition coloniale de Marseille. In 1924, his photos were published in "Nordafrica" next to those of Rudolf Lehnert. He covered the official visit of Sultan Yusef of Morocco to France in 1926. Marcelin Flandrin was also one of the most important publishers of post cards in Morocco. He was also the first to do aerial photography in Morocco; he notably captured the last known photograph of a wild Barbary lion in the Atlas Mountains, taken on a flight from Casablanca to Dakar in 1925." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelin_Flandrin).
Set of 10 photos of the city of Lucerne (Switzerland) in the 1950s.
These photos are typical of the 1950s and 1960s, during which tourism progressed a lot but not all tourists were equipped with a camera. These photos were sold on the tourist sites allowing everyone to keep a souvenir of the visit.
Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
Five large air mail envelopes of different countries between the 1960s and 1980s
French newspaper "L'Ouest" of July 18, 1926 - 8 pages.
State as on the photos.
Set of 10 French bills of exchange a bookshop of the city of Dijon from 1930s with tax stamps and rubber-stamps.
Dimensions: 25 x 10 cm for nine bills et 27 x 10 for the largest.
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.
Vintage French postcard with a bouquet of roses from 1930s.
Set of 5 sticky advertising butterflies from a French biscuit company in the 1960s.
Vintage French postcard with a young woman at sunrise and bedtime from 1900s.
Postcard legend: "Bonjour - Bonsoir" / "Hello - Good evening"
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: "Dois-je croire à votre amour ?" / "Should I believe in your love?"
Large 24-page French weekly newspaper "Le Gaulois du Dimanche" of May 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.
10 French bills of exchange with beautiful red tax stamps from 1970s.
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. The last photos shows the back of the bills of exchange. Each pack is very similar.
Large 24-page French weekly newspaper "Le Gaulois du Dimanche" of October 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.
Beautiful French letterhead from a soldier send in 1940 to his wife with a 4-leaf clover and a horseshoe, two lucky symbols.
The letter suffered the outrages of time and humidity which also makes it visually beautiful to me
Belgian postcard with beautiful illustration representing young girl releasing small birds from their cage. This postcard dates from 1910s. This postcard has been sent in 1910.