ENCHERES COTE D'OPALE - DEBACKER & RICHMOND
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"FROM ROUEN TO LE HAVRE aboard the FELIX FAURE (*) – A colle…
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678
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"FROM ROUEN TO LE HAVRE aboard the FELIX FAURE (*) – A colle…
See original version (French)
Estimate €45
Voluntary lot
Description
"FROM ROUEN TO LE HAVRE aboard the FELIX FAURE (*) – A collection of 23 postcards showing exterior and interior views of the ship, passengers, crew, landscapes along the banks of the Seine, arrival in Le Havre, fishermen in the estuary, the Quilleboeuf ferry, passengers boarding on the Seine using ferry boats, villages along the route, the Trait shipyard, the Blessard quarries, etc. 24 postcards, circa 1910, published by Raître in Rouen.
( * ) - FELIX FAURE - Built at the Delabrosse & Foucher shipyard in Nantes in 1896, it operated the Rouen–Le Havre route and could carry 500 passengers. The flagship of the ‘Compagnie Rouennaise de Navigation’, with its on-board restaurant, it was the first propeller-driven vessel to carry passengers on the Seine. It sank on 12 July 1901 after being struck in the fog by the Dynamo. After being salvaged and repaired, it returned to service until 1939. Sold to a Breton shipping company to operate in those waters, it was renamed the Morgat. Seized by the Germans in 1940, it was scuttled in 1944 in the port of Brest.
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About the sale
SALE OF COINS – BANKNOTES – MEDALS – PHALERISTICS – OLD PAPERS – POSTCARDS – MILITARIA
Auction location
Auction time
11/25/2026 at 2:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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