Item no. P2996a (cover)

Type: cover

Country: Great Britain

Date of use: 20 September 1898

Business stationery (cover, front of) used by the company KODAK in London (Great Britain), British branch of the American company Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester (USA), manufacturer of photographic chemicals, plates and films. The postage stamps on the cover are “perfins” – i. e. stamps bearing small round holes punched to form pattern of letters or marks characteristic for the firm’s name – in this case acronym “EPMCo” (EPMCo for Eastman Photographic Materials Company).