
Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century
Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
French religious card - First communion card from 1910s
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Beautiful care or beauty product labels - Early 20th century.
Set of 1000 vintage French stamps from 1900s to 1920s.
This set consists of:
French engraving representing of a lioness and a cougar by the drawer Edouard Travies dating from the middle of the 19th century.
Édouard Traviès de Villers, born in Doullens on March 24, 1809, and died in Paris 5th on November 18, 18761, is a well-known animal painter, illustrator and lithographer. This engraving is probably the result of a reissue of the encyclopedia on wildlife of Buffon.
Set of 10 photos of the city of Tulle (France) in the 1950s.
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.
Vintage Belgian postcard with a young child with two baskets of flowers from 1910s.
12 French bills of exchange from a boilermaker in eastern France from 1960s.
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 fashion magazine "La femme chez elle" with illustrations, articles and advertising - May 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.
8 vintage French chromos from the chocolate factory of Aiguebelle at the end of the 19th century - Card with golden background
Chromos were often used as advertising objects by major brands of the time before the arrival of photography and postcards in the early XX century.
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.
French engraving representing two types of monkeys by the drawer Edouard Travies dating from the middle of the 19th century.
Édouard Traviès de Villers, born in Doullens on March 24, 1809, and died in Paris 5th on November 18, 18761, is a well-known animal painter, illustrator and lithographer. This engraving is probably the result of a reissue of the encyclopedia on wildlife of Buffon.
1920s - 1940s - 10 French commercial documents.
3 French postcards of the city of Marrakech in Morocco from the 1930s
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.
Set of 10 French bills of exchange a bookshop of the city of Dijon from 1930s with tax stamps and rubber-stamps.
Dimensions: 25 x 10 cm for nine bills et 27 x 10 for the largest.
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.
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: "Je ne sais pas si vous pensez toujours à moi" / "I don't know if you still think about me"
French religious card - First communion card from 1910s