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Type: cancel
Country: France
Date of use: 16 May 2008

Cancel (on cover) commemorating 150th year of the first aerial photograph, taken of Paris by NADAR from a balloon in October 1858. The event made French graphic artist Honoré Daumier to issue later a satirical lithograph captioned "Nadar raising photography to the height of art".

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