Lot 50114 – Switzerland – Waadt – 1849 4c and 5c, group of nine items

Switzerland, Waadt – 1849 4c and 5c, group of nine items including one 5c cliché on protected glass with “dos/voile vio.” note indicating that a violet filter was used from the back (indeed the violet provided this vermilion impression), one master 5c cliché on celluloid with “5” erased to convert it into a “4”c denomination and indicating “tiré” (produced) in July 1948, one cliché on transparent film with “4c” with one additional in protected glass (cracked), one 4c cliché of the on celluloid in the preferred vermilion colour to facilitate the contrast, as well as four different clichés of the cross within red circle on different types of celluloid (one from Pathé); a magnificent group demonstrating the experiment of Sperati removing the “5” to replace it with the “4”, of great rarity.