Lot 80016 – Austria – 1858 Imperial Newspaper Tax Stamp 1 kr and 4kr, comprising a painted master

1858 Imperial Newspaper Tax Stamp 1 kr and 4kr, comprising a painted master on photographic paper of the 4kr value – the foundation for the creation of the cliché – and a similar master on celluloid for the 1kr, together with eight glass support clichés of the 1kr in a spectrum of colours, such as black, vermilion, blue, and an exceptional brown on ceramic, also two exposure on photographic paper, one dated May 1941. A unique and exceptional assembly in vivid colours; the masters in this lot would have produced the finished copies that Sperati included in his Livre d’Or with certificates from experts in Italy and Germany. This lot comes with Sperati’s cardboard box for photographic paper produced by the Lumière Brothers.