20 vintage cigar bands of different sizes and patterns...
Set of 20 very decorative vintage cigar bands of different sizes and patterns probably from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Vintage French postcard with a bouquet of roses from 1930s.
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Set of 20 very decorative vintage cigar bands of different sizes and patterns probably from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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 religious card - First communion card from 1910s
Vintage Italian postcard from the island of Capri from 1910s. French written back.
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.
15 vintage matchbox labels - Advertising labels from 1930s to 1950s.
Labels are always glued to wood.
Vintage French postcard with some roses from 1940s.
Vintage French postcard with some roses from 1940s.
Huge French lottery ticket "Les gueules cassées" from 1940.
These lottery tickets were sold in the street or in small shops to help veterans.
French religious card from 1920s.
23 pages French notarial document (of which 7 handwritten pages) of the Dieppe region in France on old paper rather thick and rigid.
Center pages larger than the other pages have been meticulously folded to the same size
This document dates from 1925 and corresponds to an acknowledgement of debt.
Five large air mail envelopes of different countries between the 1960s and 1980s
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?"
Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
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.