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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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Aged, 200 years old letter from ottoman empire
Vintage handwriting on old paper, 1880s, 19th Century
Old vintage manuscript writing in cursive
blank vintage postcard sent from Paris, France  in 1905, a very good historic background of postal service, can be used for any usage for any historic situation.
Old postcards with handwritten text
A bill for structural repairs dated 7th September, 1850. (Identifying details removed.)
mysterious hand-written French letter, black on white and on a paper background, romantic mail / postage, handwriting, Paris or calligraphy themed background or texture, portrait format, fictive document, my own handwriting
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
old letter with handwritten text from ca. 1889. grunge vintage paper background
Old vintage handwriting, original, 1825, name, William Wigson, 19th Century ephemera
An antique French letter dated 1881. The writer asks, \
a vintage blank postcard printed in France in earlier 1900s,  ready for any usage of  historic events background related to mail delievery description.
old yellowed sheet with few writings
Vintage paper with Arabic script writing
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.
old 18th letter
Sucre, Bolivia, April 12 2023 : close-up of the Bolivian Declaration of Independence in the Casa de la Libertad. Original manuscript.
Vinatge handwriting on old blue paper background, Petit journal pour rire, french 19th Century
Undefined text with french words. Handwritten letter. Handwriting. Calligraphy. Manuscript. Script. Font. Abstract texture background
Vintage blank French postcard printed in early 1900s, a very good background for any usage of the historic postcard communications.
Old handwritten letter
A receipt for twelve shillings and six pence (12/6d) dated 18th September 1937, issued to a bereaved person or family for the ‘upkeep of graves’. (Identifying details removed.)
An old, historical stamp duty stamp
This column marks the fire of 1666 and was completed in 1677 by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. It is 202 feet (62 metres) high, the same distance to Pudding Lane where the fire began. This pillar was commenced during the mayoralty of Sir Richard Ford, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1671. It was further elevated under the mayoralties of Sir George Waterman, Knight, Sir Robert Hanson, Knight, Sir William Hooker, Knight, Sir Robert Viner, Knight, and Sir Joseph Sheldon, Knight; and completed during the mayoralty of Sir Thomas Davies, in 1677.
William Shakespeare's signature
Leather Book Label , Italian, Monte Sancto, Dante, Petrercha
old letter with handwritten text from ca. 1900. grunge vintage cardboard
a vintage blank postcard sent from France in 1900s,  ready for any usage of  historic events background related to mail delievery description.
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