Provenance:
ex Ferrary (sale #11,
lot 50: 25,000 FF), ex Hind and Rothschild
References:
Ceres #5h, Yvert #5f
illustrated
in 2000 Yvert & Tellier Specialisé
catalog
Census
of unused:
this
strip of five is only reported multiple with errors and normal
one pair with both errors
Production
information:
One
plate of 150 was used to produce the 40 centimes. Although no clichés were
inverted, two 20 centimes clichés were originally inserted at positions 146 and
147. The value tables of these clichés were corrected manually with the four
numeral 2’s changed to 4’s before printing but the result is that the
numerals are sufficiently different to be quite recognizable. Of the 4.1 million
stamps issued, 14 thousand of each retouched stamp were printed.
See enlarged scan of value
tablet strip with errors at right as well as positions
146 full stamp, position 147 full stamp, and
normal stamp position 148 .
