Lot 80025 – Canada, Newfoundland – 1857 4d, 8d, 1s sixteen items,

Sperati Forgeries: 1857 4d, 8d, 1s sixteen items, comprising for the 4d value, two glass support clichés, one with reversed image and one with integrated postmark in a striking red-brown shade, for the 8d value four glass support clichés, with two in negative and painted black around design, also three trial impressions on paper, for the 1s value one negative glass support cliché with dating May 1929 and comprehensive production notes around design, two fine glass clichés in vermilion. Finally three papers with cds trials dated “7/43” and “12/44”. A spectacular and unique group of production elements for Sperati’s preferred photolithographic production method. This lot comes with Sperati’s cardboard box for photographic paper of the Societe Lumiere.