Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century
Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
Two Vintage French postcards "A la source" et "Au bord de l'eau" from 1910s
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Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
Old French photograph of a girl and her doll made by the photographer Numa Blanc (father) circa 1879 with a richly decorative back. This photo could be dated quite precisely thanks to the website ArtPlastoc at https://artplastoc.blogspot.com/2019/01/972-numa-blanc-1816-1897-numa-blanc.html.
Set of 8 French bills of exchange of a shoe factory 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.
Vintage French postcard with a young woman squire from 1904.
Note that the addresses were not precise at the time but the mail arrived at the destination.
Sets of 20 cigar bands - Willem - Dutch brand of cigars - From 1970s
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?"
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.
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.
Vintage Belgian postcard representing a young girl and her mother teaching her to knit sent in 1913. Back probably written in Dutch.
Postcard legend: "Knitting lesson"
10 French notarial and insurance documents of the Dieppe region in France with different sizes and colors.
These documents date from 1870s to 1920s.
Two vintage French chromolithograph of the Chocolat de la Marine brand from 1910s
8 French invoices with headings related to vehicle maintenance (gasoline, tires, etc.) from 1920s and 1930s.
Vintage French postcard with some roses from 1940s.
Sets of 5 sticky advertising butterflies from a French biscuit company in the 1960s
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.
Large vintage map of the Caucasus region from a French atlas of the 1910s. This map on two pages measures 46 x 37 cm and forms the front of the document.
These maps show the world as it was in 1910s...