Two postcards representing pears and plums from 1900s.

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 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 September 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.

10 French bills of exchange with beautiful red tax stamps from 1970s.

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. The last photos shows the back of the bills of exchange. Each pack is very similar.

Vintage French postcard of the Italian actress Guglielmina Marchi from 1904.

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

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

English postcard with beautiful illustration representing a young girl making tea - "Polly and her kettle". This postcard dates from 1910s. This postcard has not been sent, the back is unwritten.

Set of 12 photos of the Musée Grévin in Paris in the 1950s.

More information about the Musée Grévin at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_Grévin.

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.

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.

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 photos of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua (Italy) in the 1950s.

These photos, linked to each other and folded into a small booklet, 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.

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

Postcard handwritten by a very young girl.

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.

6 French invoices with headings from 1920s.