Lot 80009 – Australia – 1913 “Kangaroo” £2, fourteen production elements for this iconic stamp

Australia – 1913 “Kangaroo” £2, fourteen production elements for this iconic Australian high value, the element of the central kangaroo include four glass clichés, one dated March 1951 and with two corner angles delimiting the placement of the rest of the design, also a plate with two kangaroos in black numbered “23/24”, one very attractive celluloid cliché dated “8/51”; the frame element includes five glass clichés, one in rose with reversed image, dated “2/51”, also four celluloid clichés incl. impressions in pale-rose and deep brown; a unique and visually stunning range of clichés and photographic papers, with no similar material found in the “Ultimate” collection or in the Musée de la Poste of Paris. This lot comes with Sperati’s cardboard box of photographic paper from the Lumiere Brothers.