Old documents

I'm plucking out cards from cancelled sales for typing use. This is the back of a card like the one below. The story of one customer and his watch. Each drawer held hundreds, if not thousands, of customer records. The earliest were from the 1920s and the latest from the 1960s. The entries from the '50s on weren't as interesting since they added small appliance repairs. I have a certain nerdy fascination with forgotten history gleaned from esoterica. Out of all the antiquities I looked at…

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Real vintage documents from the last century (1945 and earlier) scanned in high resolution. Perfect for layering, this scans are an essential for your texture collection. Click add to cart for real historic documents. 14 images / size: max. 7082 x 6321pixels / format: jpg

Real vintage documents from the last century (1945 and earlier) scanned in high resolution. Perfect for layering, this scans are an essential for your texture collection. Click add to cart for real historic documents. 14 images / size: max. 7082 x 6321pixels / format: jpg

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Various archives, files, journals, diaries and other documents of the past are now of interest only to collectors and historians. We will help You with a preliminary assessment of your documents, as…

In Allegheny County, PA in the year 1792, the grand sum of one hundred and twenty pounds was enough to buy a farm, including: four cows, three calves, two bay horses, seven sheep, two sows, twelve shotes, three feather beds and bedding, furniture, and the crops in and out of the ground. Back then, they were setting their "seals" to documents, just as we do today - note the hand-drawn "seal" in the lower right-hand corner.

Here is a full two-page aged and shabby Georges Guillemont vintage French receipt.The front: The back: Click on images to enlarge.You can find more vintage French receipts on my blog here. Related posts that may interest you: Vintage French Cheque Clip Art French Chocolat Phalier Douelle Receipt Vintage French Invoice and Cheque

You’ve found the record you’re desperate for — too bad the old handwriting looks like chicken scratch. Here’s your ticket to deciphering difficult documents.

FRANCE, early 18th c., legal papers, contracts mostly. My French is OK but the handwriting is difficult. Can’t see a place name, they appear to emanate from the domain of a noble. ~18x24cm (~7x9.5), some single page, some double, dates 1702-03, with tax inkstamp.