Vintage Belgian postcard representing two children in the basket of a hot-air balloon. Postcard sent in 1911.

Beautiful French religious card - First communion memory from 1910s

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.

Set of 10 photos of the city of Lucerne (Switzerland) 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 representing a young girl and her mother teaching her to knit sent in 1913. Back probably written in Dutch. 

Postcard legend: "Knitting lesson"

Block of 4 old French stamps representing Figaro de Beaumarchais from 1953. This stamp was created by draughtsman André Spitz and engraver Henry Cheffer. These stamps have not been used.

Large 24-page French weekly newspaper "Le Gaulois du Dimanche" of August 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.

Telegram addressed to Georges Coulon Vice-President of the French Council of State from 1898 to 1912.

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.

Huge and decorative bearer share of a loan realized in France for Serbia in 1913 on two sheets.

The owner of this bearer share could sell each small coupon at the stock exchange price and the coupons sold were cut.

Each bearer share have one sheet of 100 coupons. On each bearer share five were cut and sold by their owner as shown in the last photo. 

These documents were traditionally kept between two bed linen for the less fortunate, in a safe at home or in a bank for the more fortunate. 

This single document could have been a lot of money at the time.

These documents will be sent folded in four as they have been kept since decades.

French engraving representing two types of monkey (Barbary macaque and gibbon) 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.

Old French photograph of a middle class woman in the 1900s made by the photographer Emile Boulin in Orléans.

10 French bills of exchange with beautiful red tax stamps from 1970s.

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.

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.

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.

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.