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Item no. C280 (cancel)

Type: cancel

Country: France

Date of use: 21 - 22 October 1989

Special cancel (on cover), used to commemorate both 150th Anniversary of “useful discovery”: photography, and 150th anniversary of announcement of the invention at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris by François ARAGO [1786 – 1853]. It shows an outline of portrait of JOSEPH NICÉPHORE NIÉPCE [1765 – 1833] (French scientist and co-inventor [with L. J. M. Daguerre] of photography).

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