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Lot 51196 – THE FAMOUS IMPRINT BLOCK OF TWENTY-FIVE

Lot 51196 – THE FAMOUS IMPRINT BLOCK OF TWENTY-FIVE
Greece » Large Hermes Heads » 1861 Paris print
Price realised
Unsold
Estimate
80’000 – 100’000 EUR
Auction date
Thu 6 Dec 2018 at 11:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

THE FAMOUS IMPRINT BLOCK OF TWENTY-FIVE

20L blue, mint with original gum as issued, bottom right corner marginal inscription BLOCK OF TWENTY FIVE, showing complete printers inscription ‘TYPOGRAPHIE ERNEST MEYER, RUE DE VERNEUIL 22, A PARIS’, some minor imperfections mentioned for accuracy only, the finest and most important of all the imprint blocks known, cert. RPS (1955), Zehs (1988) and Tseriotis

One of the most important multiples of the Large Hermes Heads

Provenance: Alfieris, Gill

Catalogue ref: Hellas 5

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