Lot 50444 – Newfoundland – postmarks, three essays on paper featuring

Canada, Newfoundland – postmarks, three essays on paper featuring cancellations for the 1857 issue, including mute barred obliterator, barred with “cancelled” (partial and marked with blue cross for rejected), and circular date mark of St Johns Newfoundland of 1859, dated by Sperati “6/29”, “2/51”, and “2/52” respectively, copiously annotated by Sperati and showing his characteristic fingerprint colour trial; an enticing experimental trio of working proofs that take us inside the Sperati workshop.