Lot 50415 – Australia, Tasmania – 1892 £1 Victoria issue, cliché

Australia, Tasmania – 1892 £1 Victoria issue, cliché on celluloid, in black and with reversed image; as with the original stamp, the value tablet was printed separately by Sperati and was left blank on this cliché; a very rare cliché of the central design of an issue that Sperati abandoned after making only a few examples, as he was unable to get the deep green colour correct.