Lot 50092 – Romania – 1858-59 80pa, group of 15 items

Romania – 1858-59 80pa, group of 15 items including one master negative which was extensively painted except in the area in negative, the master being the basis to create the clichés and the most significant item in the lot, three glass clichés in orange-red and black, preferred shades for the contrasts by Sperati, dated April 1932; the rest of the lot is dedicated to the “Franco/Galatz” postmark, with cut out from two illustrations of an auction catalogue where Sperati inked the area of the cancellation in order vto highlight it for his clichés, then three negative glass clichés which were retouched with paint, two additional glass support clichés in vermilion, and three working proofs on paper with one also including the fingerprint from Sperati to check a black ink, the otehr two in red and one with addiitonal strike of Bakeu cds; also a cutout from an auction catalogue highlighting with ink a “Jassy/Moldova” cds; a unique group with nothing comparable known; the B.P.A. just records one cliché and one negative but undated, but in this lot we can finally provide a date in 1932.