Welcome to

Photography in Philately

A Krzysztof K. Słowiński Collection

[ stop the slideshow ]

Item no. P1207 (cover)

Item no. P1207 (cover).jpg ThumbnailsItem no. P1208 (cover)ThumbnailsItem no. P1208 (cover)ThumbnailsItem no. P1208 (cover)ThumbnailsItem no. P1208 (cover)

Item no. P1207 (cover)

Type: cover

Country: USA

Date of use: 3 February 1902

Business stationery (cover) used by the company RAUBER & WOLLENSAK OPTICAL Co. in Rochester (New York, USA), manufacturer of “The improved and Automatic Photographic Shutter”. The company was founded in 1899 by Andrew Wollensak and his brother John ( Stephen Rauber was the investor) to make a line of photographic shutters sold at reasonable prices, and (later) to manufacture photographic lenses.