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Item no. P3684b (cover)

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Item no. P3684b (cover)

Type: cover

Country: India

Date of use: 19 August 2019

Commemorative cover (back of) with special cancel honoring WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY. This day falls each year on 19th August.
Photography Day - August 19 - is the date the French government handed over the invention of the technology of the first method of photography (daguerreotype) to the world in 1839. Its inventor received a life annuity from the government.