Item no. P1466 (cover)
Type: cover
Country: Germany
Date of use: 7 August 1940
Business stationery (cover with relevant red frankmark) used by the company ED. LIESEGANG of Düsseldorf (Germany), manufacturer of viewing and projection apparatus for film and photography. The company was founded in 1854 by Frederick William Eduard Liesegang (1838 – 1896), initially as photographic shop. His son Paul Eduard Liesegang published in 1856 a standard work on photography, and four years later founded a bi-weekly magazine “Photographisches Archiv”. He was also author of the first Liesegang patent filed in 1877. Paul’s son, chemist Raphael Eduard Liesegang (1869 – 1947), took over with his two brotheras the company in 1896 and made several scientific inventions, among them film and slide projectors and enlargers, hydroquinone developer “Aristogen”, matte collodion printing-out paper.
The cover bears military censorship marks used during WW II.
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