Lot 50065 – Italian States, Naples – 1860 Issue 1/2t, Group of 106 items

Italian States, Naples – 1860 The Savoy Cross Issue 1/2t, group of 106 items, comprising seven glass support clichés, three of which are negative clichés in brown, the remaining four including one in blue dated Dec.-42, one in black dated “8/3/28” with the notation indicating 6% of a chemical substance used to create the cliché exposed to light during 3 minutes with an environmental temperature of 16°C, one in vermilion with similar notations ‘2’ at 20° with 5% chemical substance, one in deep-red numbered “2”, four celluloid clichés including two in blue, one numbered “1” dated 6/32 with notation “6” “8” the other marked as “2” dated 2/48 and annotated “1 day” “cd 14”, two in vermilion one with “244” dated 11/42 with script “selo +”, the other “242” with notation “unique more exposure”, two exposure trials on photographic paper in brown (one with a pmk), two trial essays in blue ink on white paper, one dated 6/43 “3c”, the other with two impressions (one with a black pmk “Annullato” dated 9/43 numbered “2c”, the other uncancelled numbered “2d” which has a small tear in the right bottom corner not affecting the stamp design), as well as one final reproduction with the Sperati violet hs on the back numbered “52”. The rest of the collection is devoted to the reproduction of postmarks, with 25 celluloid clichés for various types, an extensive selection of trail essays on four stock pages and seven fragments of covers which have had the stamps removed leaving the part cancels, as well as eight stamps only exhibiting the cancellation and with the impression of the design chemically removed leaving just the white paper to retain the cancellations for his reproductions; also contained with the trial working proofs we find a part envelope sent from the stamp expert J. Nitard of Marseille to Mademoiselle A Corne (Sperati sent under her name to avoid influencing his opinion) with a memo from Nitard saying that the stamp sent to him was genuine but had been repainted and as such he would not make an offer to buy it; also nine genuine stamps on letter fragments from which the cancellations were retained by Sperati to obtain nine different types for his reproductions (with Scheller cert.), these providing insight into the technique used by Sperati which relates to much of the working trials and fragments within this collection; a unique assembly of glass clichés including three rare master negative examples, which were the basis to create the clichés, as well as supporting material not previously offered; there were no matrices in the “Ultimate” collection, and only contained few trial exposures and two glass clichés for just cancellations.