Vintage Belgian postcard representing two children in the basket of a hot-air balloon. Postcard sent in 1911.

Very beautiful portrait of a young girl - French postcard - 1920s

Vintage Belgian "Bonne fête" postcard with young girl with a bouquet of flowers from 1910.

This postcard bears the mention "De tout coeur" which can be translated into "wholeheartedly".

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?"

Set of 20 very decorative vintage cigar bands of different sizes and patterns probably from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Vintage French postcard with some roses from 1940s.

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

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.

8 vintage French chromos from the chocolate factory of Aiguebelle at the end of the 19th century  - Card with golden background

Chromos were often used as advertising objects by major brands of the time before the arrival of photography and postcards in the early XX century.

Block of 6 old French stamps representing Gargantua from 1953. This stamp was created by draughtsman and engraver Henry Cheffer. These stamps have not been used.

Booklet of 12 vintage postcards of the city of Nimes by French editor André Poux in the 1950s.

Find more information about André Poux at https://www.apapoux.fr/à-propos

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.

Vintage French postcard with a young woman with a typical Roaring Twenties hat from 1928.

Postcard handwritten by a very young girl.

Beautiful French letterhead from a soldier send in 1940. Beautiful header of 134th Infantry Regiment of French army.

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

Huge French lottery tickets "Les gueules cassées" from 1939.

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