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1849-1850 Ceres Issue
1 franc rouge brun tęte-bęche

tęte-bęche on cover to India, plate 1, positions 33-36
 Rochefort 4 August 1849 (foreign frankings permitted on August 1, 1849)

References: 
Ceres #T7f, Yvert #6Aa

Census:
the only reported example of this shade

Production information:
Two plates of 150 were used, plate one had tęte-bęche cliché at position 35. A total of only 250 thousand stamps in the four vermilion shades were printed but 122 thousand were recalled. Only 850 tęte-bęche pairs were issued.