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Item no. P2650-a (COD)

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Item no. P2650a (postal form)

Type: cover

Country: Poland (during German occupation of WW II)

Date of use: 5 March 1941

Postal stationery (COD form, front of) used by the company Photochemical factory “ORION” [Wytwórnia Fotochemiczna “Orion” Sp. zo.o.] in Kielce (Poland). The company was established in 1933 by Kopel [or Koppel] Gringras (1878 – 1941), Jewish photographer, who also owned two photographic studios – “Foto Moderne” and “Emalit”, and produced photographic glass plates, Röntgen films, chemicals, and papers. The company was nationalized in 1949 and soon liquidated.