Lot 80011 – Australia – 1913 “Kangaroo”, a comprehensive group of items used for postmarks

Australia – 1913 “Kangaroo”, a comprehensive group of items used for the creation of postmarks on the finished stamp reproductions, Including one genuine 9d stamp with genuine cancellation that Sperati touched up in order to reproduce his photographic cliché (the cliché dated April 1951), also two attractive glass clichés in dark brown with cds of Melbourne and NSW, three celluloiud strips with cds that were transposed unto stamp reproductions, four paper fragments with impressions of the £2 kangaroo (two in rose), finally a very exciting card with papers on which Sperati experimented with the cds and also three genuine stamps (incl. 5s) on which Sperati placed his Sydney and Melbourne cds; a wonderful and unique range of trial pm reproductions that takes us inside Sperati’s workshop.