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

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

Old French photograph of pretty young woman made by the photographer Henri Delgay in Toulouse in 1920s.

Large French liner menu with an incredible choice of dishes.

This is the menu of February 3, 1962 aboard the liner "Flandre". The menus were different every day.

This liner made crossings between Europe and North America between 1952 and 1962 for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

Vintage French chromo from the well-known Parisian department store "Au bon marché"

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

French religious card nicely cut from 1920s.

Vintage French postcard with a bouquet of roses from 1930s.

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.