Item no. C120 (cancel)

Type: cancel

Country: France

Date of use: 31 March 1980


Cancel commemorating centenary of death of French photographer CHARLES NEGRE (1820 – 1880), co-inventor (with Nicéphore Nièpce, Nièpce de St. Victor and Alphonse Poitevin) of modern heliogravure, a photo-mechanical process enabling reproducing photographs into permanent ink images.