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Item no. S152 (stamp)

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Item no. S152 (stamp)

Type: stamp

Country: Great Britain

Date of issue: 12 January 1999

Catalog number: Scott 1841 (of 1839 - 1842)

Stamp of a 4-stamp set entitled INVENTORS, issued to honor William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 – 1877), inventor of true photographic negative/positive process. The stamp shows some of the first photographic images of leaves and flowers, that Talbot obtained by putting them on a light-sensitive paper and exposing to sunlight.

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