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On September 5, 1989, the Royal Mail of Great Britain issued a set of four stamps to commemorate Microscopy and the centennial of the Royal Microscopial Society. Shown here is a genuine First Day Cover, an envelope with the stamp, celebrating the Achromatic Lens and J.J. Lister, an amateur opticist, whose system of 'double lenses' revolutionized microscopy by correcting aberrations, cancelled from the city of issue (Edinburgh) on the first day of issue captioned above. The stamp features Blood Cells x 500, as seen by Lister in the nineteenth century. Note the special 'microscope' postmark designed to cancel this set of stamps on their 'birthday.'
The color cachet (artwork on the envelope) shows a drawing in silhouette of a person gazing into a microscope with achromatic lens. The producer of this cover has also written a brief commentary about Lister and his contributions to microscopy as a tool of science, which we've included.
Matted in blue, it's sized to fit a standard 8 x 10 frame. ***Certificate of Authenticity and Commentary Included***
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