Canada - 1859 5c vermilion "The Beaver". Negative glass support cliché with painted surrounding to highlight the design and create contrast, a unique item of great visual impact for exhibition; a new discovery about the work of Sperati, as this reproduction is unknown in the handbooks on his work; the vermilion colour used by Sperati typically increases in density and thus being able to provide a sufficient contrast to give a good matrix. (Image)
Opening EUR 500.00
Sold...EUR 1,000.00
Closed..Dec-06-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 1000
Sale No: 22DE
Lot No: 50024
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Canada - 1859 Jacques Cartier 17c, group of six items including one retouched master negative on film dated by Sperati "1/57", this being the most important item of this project and the basis to produce the clichés, four glass support clichés in different colours (blue, orange, black and silver grey), as well as one celluloid collective cliché of the target numeral 6 and barred oval. Sperati never finished this work, the left part of the stamp which was perforated on the design would have required a reconstruction work; thanks to the retouched master negative and its annotations we have discovered that Sperati undertook this project in January 1957, a few months before he died in April; A unique and most desirable assembly of this beautiful stamp, of great fascination for revealing what was hitherto unknown: this now has the status of being the last project of Jean de Sperati. The "Ultimate" collection sale of Sperati contained one working proof on paper and a exposure trial, coming originally from the daughter of Sperati; as the B.P.A. purchased part of his archive in 1953, no items are included in its collection. (Image)
Opening EUR 1,500.00
Sold...EUR 1,700.00
Closed..Dec-06-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 1700
Sale No: 22DE
Lot No: 50025
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British Columbia & Vancouver Island - 1865 5 cents: group of 37 items comprising the important retouched master negative on film, six celluloid clichés of which two transparent impressions, 11 glass support clichés including six reversed impressions, these all exhibiting a fascinating array of colours (rose, dark violet, black, sepia, orange); one tracing paper with cancellation of the barred numeral 35 and the "Paid" postmark, two celluloid clichés for the "Paid" pmk. and the oval "Post Office / Victoria Vancouver", six glass support clichés for the previously mentioned cancellations accompanied by nine printed ink trials with annotations. With regards to the stamps, the annotations indicate Sperati undertook the working process between November to December 1942, whereas the dates for the cancellations range from July 1943 to January 1953; by far the most significant assembly ever recorded - in fact, the B.P.A. only mentions one cliché dated in November 1942; only one exposure trial, which is a primitive step of the definitive reproduction of the stamp, and four single definitive reproductions were offered in the "Ultimate" collection sale of Sperati. (Image)
Opening EUR 3,000.00
Sold...EUR 3,600.00
Closed..Dec-06-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 3600
Newfoundland
Sale No: 22DE
Lot No: 50026
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Newfoundland - 1857 2d, 4d, 6 1/2d, 8d and 1s issues, group of 156 items, comprising for the 2d value, two retouched painted matrices on film (positive and negative), four glass support clichés in red, light-brown and brown and one negative cliché, five celluloid clichés in green, vermilion, red and black one dated 7/43, for the 4d value one retouched painted matrices on film with notations and dated 12/42, two glass support clichés one in negative, seven celluloid clichés with notations dated 2/43, 5/43, 6/43, two of these have cancellations, shades range from vermilion, red, grey and black, eleven exposure trials on photographic paper in brown with notations, two are used stamps, the 6 1/2d value has four retouched painted matrices on film with extensive notations, two with the date 27/1/12, one with 4/30, five glass support clichés in vermilion one dated 7/32, one celluloid cliché in black, for the 8d value there are sixteen glass support clichés, three of which are negative clichés, one celluloid cliché and one exposure trial on photographic paper in brown and twelve trial essay on white wove paper, three in vermilion, one red and the rest in black, one has the date 2/53, the 1s value with two copper plates which are his attempt to develop a typography printing reproduction with ten essays on pelure paper, two retouched painted matrices on film dated 5/29 with additional notations and one further unpainted dated 3/30, eleven negative glass support clichés one dated 5/29 (corner of glass missing not affecting the design), ten glass support clichés in vermilion, red, white, black and purple-brown, one dated 10/29 three negative celluloid clichés, also there is a Pascal Scheller certificate for one of the clichés, eight celluloid clichés in vermilion, black, grey and red, one dated 12/43, and five trial exposures on photographic paper, other items included are a celluloid of a 6d in brown accompanied by a finished reproduction with a cancel signed on the back, finished reproduction for the 4d (1) in vermilion and 1s (2) in red the latter two signed on the back and a small photo box full of clichés for various cancellation including glass support and celluloid, essays and notations; a unique array of previously unknown clichés and the copper plates which illustrate Sperati attempt to develop a typography printing process, which it seems were not of the required quality and thus his efforts were focused upon his more tradition method of utilising photolithography; there were no copper plates included in the "ultimate" collection. (Image)
