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

10 French bills of exchange with beautiful blue tax stamps from 1980s.

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.

Five large air mail envelopes of different countries between the 1960s and 1980s

Belgian postcard representing a countryside scene with a mother and her child. This embossed postcard dates from 1910s. This postcard has been sent and the back is written.

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.

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.

Very beautiful portrait of a couple - French postcard - 1920s

Vintage French chromolithograph with a young lady representing the United States with golden background from 1890s

Vintage French fashion magazine "La femme chez elle" with illustrations, articles and advertising - April 1931 - 34 pages

"La femme chez elle" is a French bi-weekly women’s magazine, founded in 1899, then disappeared in 1938. Everyday life is relayed through embroidery, cooking, education, good manners or even furniture advice.

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?"

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

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

English postcard with an illustration of Mabel Lucie Attwell from 1930s

French postcard with a young boy - Postcard written by a young boy to his father from 1920s.

Vintage Belgian "Bonne fête" postcard with young girl with a bouquet of flowers from 1909. Unwritten back. 

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.

French postcard with a couple from 1910s with the words "Sois à moi autant que je suis à toi" / "Be mine as much as I am yours"