Lot 50072 – Italy, San Marino – 1892-1903 Issues, lot of 39 items

Italy, San Marino – 1892-1903 Issues, lot of 39 items including 1892 5c on 30c, the “Cmi. 5” overprint featuring a highly valuable copper plate (of great rarity among the Sperati production artifacts), one corresponding die proof on pelure paper and four essays on wove paper; the main lot being dedicated to 1892-1907 “Repubblica di S. Marino” cds’s with three interesting multiples of genuine stamps which were decoloured to retain the cancellation and in which the wmk is clearly visible with converted blank designs on the paper, two glass clichés, five negative clichés on celluloid with cds’s highlighted by being placed under a piece of red paper which only is opened in the area of the cds’s, another four negative clichés on celluloid on black and yellow, 13 retouched essays (some with two strikes) on photographic paper, one cliché on celluloid and five essays on paper; an extraordinary assembly including the unique engraved copper plate, conceived to make more believable the surcharge by using the typographic rather than the photolithographic technic.