Lot 50111 – Switzerland, Canton Zurich – 1843 “Zurich 4” & “Zurich 6”, assembly made up of 28 items

Switzerland, Canton Zürich – 1843 “Zurich 4” & “Zurich 6”, assembly made up of 28 items: 4r including six clichés on celluloid dated April 1949 and March 1951, mainly in vermilion-red and one in black which were the most appropriate colours to create contrasts, black ink essay with Sperati’s fingerprints and annotations and one definitive hand signed reproduction; the 6r includes two black clichés on transparent fil registered as t. III, three clichés on Pathé celluloid prepared in May 1953 and each representing a different type from I to III, two t. III clichés on protected glass, six clichés of the vertical background lines on Pathé transparent film and two annotated as ready to “issue” in June 1953, other two dated “3/50”, a big format of the same lines on celluloid and paper, three clichés of the Zurich “rosette” pmk which were partly hand coloured in red on Alfa film in April 1953, one cliché of teh Zurich cds in red on celluloid and its corresponding essay in black on paper; a stunning assembly of the first issue of Swiss philately including unique items.