Canada - 1859 17c, negative glass support cliché on reddish black; Sperati worked from a perforated stamp and probably retouched the design rather substantially to make it appear imperforate and draw in missing portions of the stamp with continuous framelines; an extremely rare example of a reproduc
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Canada, British Columbia and Vancouver - 1865 5c, glass support cliché in negative, in black around the design achieving a good contrast, with some production numberings at top and base; extremely rare in negative.
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Canada, British Columbia and Vancouver - 1865 5c, glass support cliché in light carmine, prepared for producing the imperforate stamp, one of a dozen recorded.
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Canada, British Columbia and Vancouver Island - 1865 5c, cliché in black on grey celluloid film; extremely rare with only a very few examples in the B.P.A. and the “Ultimate” collection.
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Canada, Newfoundland - 1857 4d, glass support cliché in black and with image in reverse, showing the static cancellation that was printed on reproductions in a fixed position.
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Canada, Newfoundland - 1857 8d, glass support cliché in black and with reverse image.
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Canada, Newfoundland - 1857 8d, glass support cliché in vermilion, with reversed image, marked “148” at base; the vermilion shade that Sperati so often used for his proofs was a good match for the scarlet-vermilion of the original stamp.
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Canada, Newfoundland - 1857 8d, cliché on celluloid film in black with design reversed, marked “EN” at bottom.
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Canada, Newfoundland - 1857 8d, a very fine essay on paper with design in grey, a very rare preliminary production on paper with some printed typography on the reverse.
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Canada, Newfoundland - 1857 8d, essay on paper, on the reverse is another partial imprint of the same value turned horizontal. A very rare trial from the Sperati workshop.
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Canada, Newfoundland - postmarks, three essays on paper featuring cancellations for the 1857 issue, including mute barred obliterator, barred with “cancelled” (partial and marked with blue cross for rejected), and circular date mark of St Johns Newfoundland of 1859, dated by Sperati “6/29”, “2/51”,
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