Algeria, Tunisia

TN 156

5 colonial postcards of children weaving carpets in Algeria, 1904-1906. SOLD

Price: $150.00

TN 155

An archive of 54 adverts for Seneclauze wine produced in Oran, Agleria and marketed in France. The adverts contain an array of different formats. Some showing brochures, others on the back of postcards giving prices and other data. The postcard fronts range from fantasy to local wine making to Algerian types and habits. A rare collection, spanning 60 years beginning in 1906. SOLD

Price: $3100.00

Note: The roots of this operation begin in 1890 when Théodore Sénéclauze moved to Algeria and set up a wine business. After seven decades in Algeria, the family was forced to move and settled in Marseille in 1962.

TN 154

Unusual set of 11 non-commercial snaps of a float parade in Algeria shortly after WW1. One float celebrates the centennial of the French conquest of Algeria. Another represents the Union des Mutiles Anciens et Combattants de la Region de Taza (Union of Disabled Veterans).

Price: $500.00

Note: The Union of Mutilated and Veterans is an association which brought together former Algerian soldiers who participated in the First World War. Some 175,000 Algerian soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers took a decisive part in the fighting during the Great War, during which 26,000 of them lost their lives.

TN 153

Colonial postcards of a Tunisian negro and residents of Kairuan praying for water. SOLD

Price: $50.00

TN 152

Three colonial postcards of the Mission des Peres Blancs at Ouargla, Algeria. SOLD

Price: $75.00

TN 151

Algerian Spahis at the 1913 Lyon Colonial Exhibition. SOLD

Price: $25.00

TN 150TN 150

13 colonial postcards of Algeria scenes and types. SOLD

Price: $310.00

TN 149

5 early postcards of the Abbaye de Notre Dame de Staoueli plus a rare photo of Charles de Foucauld. SOLD

Price: $180.00

Note: Staouëli Abbey is a former Trappist monastery located in Algeria . Created in 1843, the monastery was erected into an abbey on July 11, 1846 by Monsignor Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy . Charles de Foucauld resided there. The monks left it in 1904. This Trappe symbolized the presence of Christianity in Algeria for sixty years.

TN 148

Document created to encourage Algerian belligerents to surrender to the nearest military post and to bring this paper. They will be treated well. B

Price: $150.00

TN 147

1947 Algerian tourist postcard. B SOLD

Price: $90.00