Lot 40021 – 1866, 10r vermilion, complete sheet of 100

1866, 10r vermilion, full sheet of 100, with complete margins showing 12 ABN imprints in English and Spanish, being inverted at base, and « 2 » reversed plate number at top right, preserving its full original gum with just a small place at bottom where is missing as a result of thinning, some usual tone spots not detracting and small areas with ink at lower left; one of three full sheets recorded, additionally this gem featuring the inverted imprints and the plate number as well as being, with the 1866 20r, the only two values out of twenty-five « Dom Pedros » known in a complete sheet -the « Barba Branca » 10r exist in a block of 100 (also offered in this sale), but in that issue it represents a half sheet-; ex Dr. de Amaral Machado.