Lot 50089 – Spanish Philippines – 1863-79 Issues, group of 13 items

Spanish Philippines – 1863-79 Issues, group of 13 items with 1863 issue in an interesting glass support cliché annotated “2 filt/+c.d. mince (1)” denoting the usage of two filters and this being a first try (we can not decipher “+c.d.”, with mince referring to thin) dated 14.3.40; 1872 Amadeo 16c master negative with retouches in black on both sides and painted in black around the design to concentrate the light on the area of the design when creating the following cliché, 1874 1p25c with additional matrix with painted surround, and 1875-79 25m, 100m & 200m, each in a master negative including the 25m and 200m where he reached an incredible degree of perfection, with an additional master negative of the 200m which was excluded and with retouches around the letters in upper and lower tablets on one side and painted surround on the other side, this with a note in Italian (his mother tongue language which was extremely rarely used in his annotations) “Intanto insuff.” (insufficiente) for “in the meantime insufficient”, and the 100m to complete the set of negative matrices, this being infrequently executed in yellow-cream with handpainted surround in red, one glass cliché of “Filipinas” & 200 Mils. de Peso” only, and three glass clichés of which one in negative, one dated May 1948 and describing it as very boiled. A phenomenal lot including the valuable and unique master negatives or “matrices” for four values, which were the foundations to make the printing clichés.