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Item no. C317 (cancel)

Type: cancel

Country: Great Britain

Date of use: 4 April 1986

Commemorative cancel (on cover) honoring centenary (1886 – 1986) of the company RANK TAYLOR HOBSON in Leicester (Great Britain). The company was founded in 1886 by optician Thomas Smithies Taylor and his brother Herbert William Taylor, engineer, to make lenses. A year later W. S. H. Hobson joined the company so it took the name “Taylor, Taylor & Hobson” [TTH]. From 1893 they started production of photographic lenses upon the license of the company T. [Thomas] Cooke & Sons of York.

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