Dominican Republic - 1865 First Issue 1r, essay of the extraordinary copper plate on pelure paper, showing grid pattern of horizontal and vertical lines across design with numbers inside the grids. Sperati made two different reproductions of this value, derived from sheet positions 6 and 8; this one is from pos. 8, showing a black dot over the top of the shield at the right. Together with the 15 items offered in our previous sale, these are the only items known demonstrating that Sperati also used the typographic process for his reproductions. (Image)