Lot n° 13
Estimation :
200 - 400
EUR
[REGIONALISM-TRADITIONS-CITY OF FRANCE-CURIOSITIES-MAGHREB-A - Lot 13
[REGIONALISM-TRADITIONS-CITY OF FRANCE-CURIOSITIES-MAGHREB-ANTILLES-FAR EAST] Lot of around 7000 old, semi-modern or modern postcards illustrating in particular :
- fairs and markets: Alfortville, Bayonne, Brou, Calvinet, Cherbourg, Dieppe, Lisieux, Meung-sur-Loire, Montereau, Moulins, Nancy, Niort, Paimpol, Puiseaux, Rennes, Sancoins, Urçay.
- weddings: bridal procession in Salt Country, Breton wedding in Cornwall, Breton wedding near Rochefort-en-Terre, Guérande wedding, honeymoon in Robinson.
- celebrations: Joan of Arc celebrations in Orleans (May 8, 1911), Joan of Arc celebrations in Orleans-traditional procession, Pardon in Sainte-Anne d'Auray, procession in Carantec, procession in Le Portel.
- maritime, port and island life : rue de Sauzelle on Île d'Oléron, oyster fisherwomen around Marennes and La Tremblade, salt marshes in Bourg-de-Batz, wet feet walk in Boulogne-sur-Mer, net loading in Boulogne-sur-Mer, sorting fish on the docks at Boulogne-sur-Mer, oyster fisherwomen at Le Verdon, fisherman on the Normandy coast, washing laundry at sea, boat loading tiles for oyster swarms, Sablaises women working with nets., rope-making in Grandcamp-les-Bains.
- Breton life: miller's boy at Carné mill in Noyal-Muzillac, threshing at Croix Kerano on Île de Bréhat, preparation and drying of fuel for Iliens on Île de Bréhat, Bréhatine tending her salt-meadow sheep, young Breton saluting.
- Norman life: lacemakers, old-fashioned headdresses and costumes (Avranches, Coutances, the round bonnet), departure for the Bancs or farewell to Granville, servant on her bourrique.
- mountain life: types of muleteers in Andorra, artillery maneuvers in the Alps, women descending the mountain in the Pyrénées Orientales, schlitteurs climbing the mountain in the Urson forest, schlitteurs in the Hohwald, Pyrenean carriage in Lourdes, spinner in La Grave, armaillis in Gruyère.
- agricultural and viticultural life - Grangeneuve agricultural school: grape harvest in Riquewihr, snacks in the fields in Burgundy, reapers near Fribourg, scarification near Fribourg, harvesting near Fribourg, tedding near Fribourg, haymaking near Fribourg.
- women's education - Wards of the Uruguay-France public school in Avon: pupils ironing, physical education session, sewing lesson.
- picturesque regional life : peasant woman at the well in Meung-sur-Loire, milkmaid in the Basque country, Mère l'Amour in Duclair, type of miners in Lens, seamstresses, resin worker bleeding from a pine tree in Montalivet-les-Bains, resin workers at work in Montalivet-les-Bains, saffron drying in Pithiviers-en-Gâtinais, Auvergne lacemakers, young shepherd and his "mignon" in Pougues-les-Eaux, Champagne shepherd and his sheep, suckling sow, tribute to the Sablaises, Arceaux dance in the Basque country.
- regional costumes: Saint-Colomban-des-Villards in Savoie, Fouesnant in Brittany, Bigouden in Finistère, Coutances in Normandy, Coutances.
- women's professions: oyster fisherwomen at the Pointe du Chapus, oyster fisherwomen around Marennes and La Tremblade.
- views of Paris: flooding of the Seine, memories of the January 1910 floods, supply and rescue by soldiers from the École du génie d'Avignon, the Ferris wheel, the Trocadero palace.
- humorous or curious themes: "Tiens bon la rampe" after Germaine Bouret, "Tu peux y aller, j'ai mangé l'magticot", Dario unfolding a 24 m iron bar with his teeth, Dario striking in front with his 12 kg 500 hammer.
- erotic themes: "La lune est dans son plein, mignonne", women on fish backs.
- aviation and aeronautics: memories of the great aviation week of August 1909 in Reims, Coëtquidan camp, Graf Zeppelin.
- the liner Le Normandie: a luxury cabin, view of part of the grand salon, garden, aviaries and aquarium, tourist bridge room.
- the 1931 Paris International Colonial Exhibition
- the First World War: ruins of the bombardment at Senlis, line infantry in a trench, France reconquered in 1917, a street dynamited then flooded at Noyon, French territorials guarding a railroad line.
- Maghreb: Tuareg warrior, picturesque Morocco, type of Moroccan from Beni-Meskine.
- West Indies: Creole type and costume, one of the last Capresse women in a skirt in Martinique, coalminer in Fort-de-France, native servant in Martinique.
- Far East: portrait of a young Japanese woman.
- a lot of works relating to cartophily.
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