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Item no. P2500a (cover)

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Item no. P2500a (cover)

Type: cover

Country: Great Britain

Date of use: 1 February 1893

Business stationery (cover, front of) used by the company THORNTON-PICKARD Manufacturing Co. in Altrincham, near Manchester (Great Britain), manufacturers of cameras. The company was founded in 1888 by John Edward Thornton and Edgar Pickard.
The stamps on the cover are “perfins” i. e. stamps bearing small round holes punched to form pattern of an acronym "TP/MC" (TP/MC for Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Company). The cachet presents image of a “Patent ‘TIME’ shutter”, invented by the company