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bits and pieces of antique French handwriting / calligraphy, letters, documents and ephemera from the 19th Century, isolated over a white  background, cut out retro journaling or collage design elements
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Old vintage manuscript writing in cursive
Germany stamp: Air mail -  Airplane flying in the sky
USSR- CIRCA 1976:  A stamp printed in the USSR shows a portrait of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the score for his 7th Symphony, circa 1976.
An examination entrance fee receipt slip from a college of technology dated 13th February 1978, for £7.00. The subject was Human Biology / Economic History and the exam was to be taken in the summer of the same year. The examinee was presumably an adult. (All identifying details have been removed.)
100 Bulgarian lev banknote for design purpose
Vintage paper with Arabic script writing
Postage stamp Germany 1991 printed in Germany shows Hans Albers (1891-1960), actor, circa 1991
Vintage handwriting on old paper, 1880s, 19th Century
Written contract on pape with black pen for big business deal
Old fashioned handwriting
1981 Austrian postage stamp honoring Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), with a Vienna (\
Old postcard. Used paper texture. Handwritten post mail letter
Reverse of 1000 Polish zloty with empty space for design purpose
Drawing effect, Isolated on black background, marking, hand drawn, design elements, ink brush, direction
Vintage Antique postcard, French 1900s, Handwriting, Old-fashioned, Nostalgia. Correspondence, Postage Stamp
Closeup of 20 Bulgarian lev banknote for design purpose
Receipt from an English agricultural merchant for one bale of straw costing six shillings (6/-), dated April 23rd 1948 (Saint George’s Day in England). Apparently, the bill was “Sittled” on April 28th! (Identifying details removed.)
January month calligraphy hand written font text black colour white illustration vector design calendar time happy ne year lettering start beginning typography lettering element graphic event holiday
Used paper texture with unreadable text. Stained paper sheet
One of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.\nScratched into the wall of the hallway of house six (b) of insula nine, in region nine of the town\n\nPOEM : O utinam liceat collo complexa tenere\u2028braciola et teneris oscula ferre label(l)is\u2028i nunc, ventis tua gaudia, pupula, crede\u2028crede mihi levis est natura virorum\u2028saepe ego cu(m) media vigilare(m) perdita nocte\u2028haec mecum medita(n)s: multos Fortuna quos supstulit alte,\u2028hos modo proiectos subito praecipitesque premit.\u2028sic Venus ut subito coiunxit corpora amantum\u2028dividit lux et se...\nTranslation : Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck\u2028and press kisses to your tender little lips.\u2028Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.\u2028Believe me, the nature of men[c] is fickle.\u2028Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,\u2028Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,\u2028those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.\u2028So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,\u2028daylight divides them and...\nPhoto composition
Vintage handwritten letter
Vinatge handwriting on old blue paper background, Petit journal pour rire, french 19th Century
Old Serbian Catholic Church tex
A receipt for a domestic coal delivery of ‘3 bags of house coal’ costing six shillings (£0.6s.0d), dated 1935. (All identifying details removed.)
This page is a detail out of a statement in a witch trial from 1619. A young woman and two men were then burnt on a stake found guilty for witch craft.
a vintage blank postcard sent from Le Havre, France in 1900s,  a good prop for any usage for any mail delievery situation of that age.
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