Sale No: 22DE
Lot No: 50052
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Cat No: Collection
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Gibraltar - 1886-89 issues, assembly of 61 items comprising nine glass clichés, including two negative clichés one with the value tab painted out, the other an albino with the Queen's head facing left on a reversed impression which would enable the production of the support clichés of which there are four pertaining to the stamps from this issue in a grey shade with notations, one indicates "east" 6% of a substance at 4 minutes exposure, one with gel 5%, also one negative glass cliché for the 6d value tab, two glass clichés for the Gibraltar overprint and the one shilling value tab, three copper printing plates used for typography reproductions of the Gibraltar overprint (type I) labelled "A", "B" and "C, two trial essay on pelure paper labelled "A" and "B", three exposure trials on photographic paper of the overprint labelled "(a)", "a" and "b", eight overprint trial essays on white paper, one exposure trial on photographic paper of the one shilling value tab labelled "2", and one cliché on celluloid for the six pence value tab with two impressions, one reversed and one inverted, two celluloid clichés for the A26 upright oval, one of which is the negative, eight working trial essays of the A26 upright oval with a total of 26 strikes and including three of the Gibraltar cds, fourteen stamps which have had the colour chemically removed leaving the genuine pmks, eleven reproductions (one a Bermuda 6d) including two hand signed in pencil and two with the violet hs, four of which have the Gibraltar overprint; a magnificent collection of the tools used by Sperati to reproduce both the stamps and the overprints on this early issue; the inclusion of the three copper plates, which were unknown before, and the negative clichés, together with the essays, colour removed stamps and the final reproductions make this a unique and highly important assembly with nothing comparable in the B.P.A. collection. (Image)
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Opening EUR 5,000.00
Sold...EUR 6,000.00
Closed..Dec-06-2022, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 6000
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