REPRODUCTIONS & FORGERIES Speratis - Newfoundland -The Four Pence Issue
Sale No: 13
Lot No:253
Symbol:SR
Newfoundland: 4 Pence Type A showing the blank areas where the cancel was applied., Sperati was not able to copy a mint example of the genuine stamp so he carefully removed the cancel of a used copy and the blank spots were later covered with a fake postmark. Pencil notes on reverse, corner crease, still very fine. Rare. The Baillie Coll had only one normal 4 pence "unused" Ex Walske.
Newfoundland 4 Pence Type E "used", very fine and very rare. Unrecorded in Sperati I & II. No example in Baillie, no back stamp. Ex Lyman, Walske and probably Sperati's daughter.