Antique & Vintage Postcards

From the crown of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris unfurls in a breathtaking tree-lined panorama along the Avenues Carnot and Mac-Mahon — horse-drawn vehicles and early automobiles just barely visible on the grand radiating boulevards of Haussmann's capital, captured in crisp photographic halftone around 1910. Published by the prolific Lévy et ses Fils (LL series), this postcard was mailed on 29 November 1910 by a collector named André, writing from the 10th arrondissement, to a recipient named Max in Vienna, Austria — proposing a postcard exchange: Parisian views in return for Austrian, Bavarian, or Czechoslovakian stamps. The back carries two languages: French and German, revealing the pan-European philatelic exchange culture of the Edwardian era. A bright red French "Semeuse" (Sower) 10 centime stamp anchors the top right, cleanly cancelled.