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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 Photomicrography and William Henry Fox Talbot, who perfected the method of attaching a camera to a microscope, cancelled from the city of issue (Edinburgh) on the first day of issue captioned above. The stamp features a Snowflake x 10, photographed by Talbot and adopted by the Royal Microscopial Society as its official emblem in 1866. 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 attached camera. The producer of this cover has also written a brief commentary about Talbot and his contributions to microscopy, especially in the fields of bacteriology and metallurgy.
Matted in blue, it's sized to fit a standard 8 x 10 frame. ***Certificate of Authenticity and Commentary Included***
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