Item no. M474 (meter)
Type: frankmark
Country: France
Date of use: 18 June 1991
Meter (on cover) advertising the HANIMEX CORPORATION, a company founded by Jack Hannes after WWII to import and distribute European (mostly German) and Japanese photographic equipment to Australia and New Zealand . Its name was created of the three words HANnes IMport EXport. The meter advertises also the company VIVITAR CORPORATION, manufacturer, distributor and marketer of optical and photographic equipment. The Vivitar lenses as well as lenses of other makes were often branded as Hanimex.