Vintage Italian postcard from Napoli - 1910s
Vintage Italian postcard from Napoli from 1910s. French written back.
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?"
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Vintage Italian postcard from Napoli from 1910s. French written back.
French postcard of a young girl in the fields and a proverb from 1900s
Huge French lottery tickets "Les gueules cassées" from 1937.
These lottery tickets were sold on the street or in small shops to help veterans.
Vintage French chromolithograph with a young lady representing the United States with golden background from 1890s
Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Block of 4 old French stamps representing Figaro de Beaumarchais from 1953. This stamp was created by draughtsman André Spitz and engraver Henry Cheffer. These stamps have not been used.
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".
7 French - German correspondence school works with a letter and a small booklet from 1950s
Vintage Italian postcard from the island of Capri from 1910s. French written back.
Set of 5 pages of philosophy course in French - beautiful writing on the front and back of each sheet.
These sheets were written by a high school student (E. Collin) in 1866.
The page in the last photo is not for sale, it indicates the date of these leaflets.
Each set is very similar to the photos presented and includes 5 leaflets written on the front and back.