Vintage French postcard with a child sent in 1903.

French engraving representing two types of monkey (Barbary macaque and gibbon) by the drawer Edouard Travies dating from the middle of the 19th century.

Édouard Traviès de Villers, born in Doullens on March 24, 1809, and died in Paris 5th on November 18, 18761, is a well-known animal painter, illustrator and lithographer. 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.

Set of 2 sheets (4 pages) of a large Belgian ledger from 1933 and 1934 with numerous tax stamps.

This accounting register was kept for each order and tax stamps were glued in front of each order to pay the taxes due.

With these blue, red and green stamps and this beautiful writing, these pages are very decorative.

Because of their size, these pages will be sent folded in half.

Each set is very similar and very likely to the photos.

French postcard from the 1900s depicting two children with angel wings.

8 Italian postcards of the Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome from 1950s

Large 24-page French weekly newspaper "Le Gaulois du Dimanche" of August 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. A page is slightly torn as shown in one of the photos.

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.

Huge French lottery tickets "Les gueules cassées" from 1940 and 1941.

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

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 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.

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...

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

Sets of 5 sticky advertising butterflies from a French biscuit company in the 1960s

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"

French postcard representing a cute couple "like the good old days" from 1910s.