HOUSE OF THE GOOD PRESS - PARIS - Lot 383

Lot 383
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HOUSE OF THE GOOD PRESS - PARIS - Lot 383
HOUSE OF THE GOOD PRESS - PARIS Silver chromo-bromide plate for glass positive presenting the reproduction in micro photography of a dispatch sent by carrier pigeon speaking about the siege of Paris in 1870. Inscriptions plate : La Poste...par Pigeons Voyageurs - Dagron & Cie 66 rue Neuve des Petits Champs Paris - Number 1033 Total size : 10 x 8,5 cm In its original box (damaged microphotograph, old scotch tape of protection) Note : Each film was the reproduction of 12 or 16 folio pages of printing. One hundred thousand dispatches weighed one gram. A pigeon could have easily carried them. Each film contained an average of 3,000 dispatches.
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