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; t
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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
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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 colou
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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
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