Vintage French postcard with some roses from 1940s
Vintage French postcard with some roses from 1940s.
Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
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Vintage French postcard with some roses from 1940s.
Huge French lottery tickets "Les gueules cassées" from 1937.
These lottery tickets were sold on the street or in small shops to help veterans.
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: "Si vous m'aimez, venez prendre un baiser et ces fleurs" / "If you love me, come take a kiss and these flowers"
Huge French lottery ticket "Les gueules cassées" from 1940.
These lottery tickets were sold in the street or in small shops to help veterans.
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.
Three vintage French postcards depicting a bouquet of flowers from 1910s and 1920s.
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.
15 vintage matchbox labels - Advertising labels from 1930s to 1950s.
Labels are always glued to wood.
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.
Very beautiful portrait of a couple - French postcard - 1920s
Vintage Belgian "Bonne fête" postcard with young girl with a bouquet of flowers from 1910. Back probably written in Dutch.
In Europe and probably in other countries, it is tradition to wish a "bonne fête" to relatives and friends according to their first name and the calendar of saints. It is a tradition dating from the 16th century that lasted until the beginning of the 20th century and is gradually being lost.
Vintage French postcard with a young woman with a typical Roaring Twenties hat from 1928.
Postcard handwritten by a very young girl.
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.
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
Set of 30 large vintage French stamps from 1940s to 1960s
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".