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Welcome to Vintage Charmings
We forever appreciate your visit.
At Vintage Charmings, our focus is on seeking, acquiring and selling vintage papers. Our specialty is vintage postcards, papers, magazines and journals, music, documents, and books from France.
Kate Murray, founder of Vintage Charmings attends markets, auctions, and brocantes thoughout France on a weekly basis to find image interesting treasures for her clients who are mostly collage and mixed-media artists and card designers with a healthy sprinkling of collectors and interior designers.
A majority of her seeking is personalized to her client's needs. Kate has the eye to find what the artist, designer, or collector is looking for.
Kate
focuses her attention to post cards that were mailed between 1900 and
1930's, when it was vogue to send post cards to family and friends for
all occasions.To see a selection of the lovely post cards Kate has acquired, please go to Vintage Charmings' La Galerie. Since all of these post cards are authentic (one of a kind), if you are interested in a choice please let Kate know as soon as possible. There is a chance that it could be already reserved, that is the only reason that you need to wait for a confirmation before you can pay for your purchase.
Kate would love to hear from you. Please let her know the types of "Charmings" you are looking for, and she will let you know what she can do for you.
Thank you for sharing some time with us. We hope to see you again.
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Vintage Charmings is now offering the premier French decoupage papers and glue from Decopatch.
See the papers that are available on the Decoupage page.
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"Kate's Picks"
new from
Vintage Charmings
"Every time I go hunting for treasure I find a group of images that make my day. Usually what I do is inventory them, then put them in a box or on a shelf under a special category waiting for a time when I feature that theme. After doing this for many years, I have a lovely collection of post cards and ephemera that might not ever be seen except at a show because I don't have enough to put online.
We'll I decided it was a new day and I am going to have a page called Kate's Picks for treasures that I want to get to you as soon as I find them. Remember, these are one of a kind and don't stay long in my care, if you are interested, please let me know as soon as you can.
Enjoy my new page!"
----Kate
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| "Flirt" (KatesPick--LoveWS061F) |
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| 1914 "Champagne from my Shoe" (KatesPick--LoveWS090E) |
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| "Draped" (ButNiceWS362E) |
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"Naughty, But Nice"
Continues ....
A fascinating collection of ladies from the shows of the Moulin Rouge and other outrageous establishments of the time. This collection also contains ladies who love to get into trouble one way or another.
"As long as I can find these treasures at a reasonable price I will maintain this collection."---Kate
Continue to enjoy the ladies, their costumes, and adventures of "Naughty, But Nice."
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Picture Perfect
"It has taken me a while to acquire this collection. Old photographs are collector's items here in France so the prices are high. I needed to find places where I could get them at a reasonable price.
I love photographs of real people more that model posed ones even if the models are "more beautiful." There is a special quality in real photographs, a texture that professional posed models can't give us.
I rarely do art with people as the subject, I prefer birds or flowers but I do love these photographs and use these images when I want to bring a human dimension to a piece I'm working on."
--Kate
Enjoy Picture Perfect
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| 1913 "En Pays Conquis" by L. Baader (WithoutWS095D) |
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The collection "Tastefully Without" now will have it's own page.
These post cards come from the world of art and photography and celebrate the body beautiful.
Notice: This page does contain some tasteful nudity.
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| 1916 "Snow White" (PetsWS306F) |
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Vintage Charmings' site for additional well-loved themes.
-- "Pet Parade." is located on the main page of this section called "J'adore."
Under this page will be the other themes:
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These themes will be offered as long as cards are available.
Come visit us there....
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| Circa 1903 "The Pantheon" (ParisWS310D) |
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| 1904 "Signs of Spring" (FlowersWS607D) |
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| "Dapper" (WomenWS1306F) |
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Additional collection themes:
Under Galerie! we have the original themes of Women , Flowers and Paris.
Under Bon Appetit! Menus and post cards about food and the pleasures of eating. Dieting is not allowed!
Under Book Arts we have a collection of Vintage French Magazines. Under More Charmings we have Word and Script , old and interesting old French documents and other Ephemera.
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Do you have questions for Kate? or would like to be on the mailing list? Please fill out this form on you right and use the comment section for your request.
Thank you.
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Copyright (c) 2002-2009 by Kathleen A. Murray. All rights reserved.
No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission in writing from Kathleen A. Murray.
This site was last updated on: 29 July 2009
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