French religious card - First communion card from 1910s

Vintage Belgian embossed postcard with an illustration representing a young girl a young girl going to sell the fishing fish. Postcard sent in 1908.

Postcard legend: "Vive Sainte Marie" / "Long live Saint Mary"

Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.

Large 24-page French weekly newspaper "Le Gaulois du Dimanche" of July 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.

Huge French lottery tickets "Les gueules cassées" from 1936.

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

French engraving representing a buffalo and a bison 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 6 French bills of exchange from 1910s with tax stamps and rubber-stamps.

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.

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.

15 vintage matchbox labels - Advertising labels from 1930s to 1950s.

Labels are always glued to wood.

Vintage French postcard with a young woman squire from 1904.

Note that the addresses were not precise at the time but the mail arrived at the destination.

Huge vintage map of Europe from a French atlas of the 1910s. This map on two pages measures 54 x 41 cm and forms the front of the document.

On the back you will find a smaller map of the Pacific Ocean (41 x 27 cm) and a hypsometric physical map of Europe (41 x 27 cm) in the 1910s.

At that time Germany was very different from today and Poland was not an independent state.

These maps show the world as it was in 1910s...

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.

Huge and decorative bearer share of a loan realized in France for Serbia in 1913 on two sheets.

The owner of this bearer share could sell each small coupon at the stock exchange price and the coupons sold were cut.

Each bearer share have one sheet of 100 coupons. On each bearer share five were cut and sold by their owner as shown in the last photo. 

These documents were traditionally kept between two bed linen for the less fortunate, in a safe at home or in a bank for the more fortunate. 

This single document could have been a lot of money at the time.

These documents will be sent folded in four as they have been kept since decades.

Correspondence book of a French young schoolgirl from the 1950s.

This notebook indicates the marks and the appraisals given by the teacher to the student.

French postcard representing the cinema actress Else Berna.

French postcard with a flower and the inscription "Bonne fête" from 1940s. Postcard sent in 1947.

In Europe and probably in other countries, it is tradition to wish a "bonne fête" to relatives and friends according to their first name and the calendar of saints. It is a tradition dating from the 16th century that lasted until the beginning of the 20th century and is gradually being lost.