Ordre d'achat - Galerie Dreyfus
Ordre d'achat - Galerie Dreyfus
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113 1859: THE ERROR OF COLOUR. The piece bearing the unique dated example of G I 1 000 000 - 1 200 000<br />
the 1/2 grana printed in “deep dull blue” instead of orange from Plate II, with<br />
large margins all round and cancelled by the framed handstamp in black.<br />
Palermo datestamp at right (April 21, 1859). A philatelic world rarity.<br />
This famous stamp error of colour was ably recorded by Emilio Diena in 1904:<br />
“the person who found the letter in Syracuse was a collector. He detached one<br />
of the specimens from the letter and put it into his collection. The letter was<br />
then sold to a Parisian dealer, from whom the other error (the loose copy) was<br />
re-sold to Prince Doria Pamphilj and this copy was exhibited in Manchester at<br />
the Philatelic Exhibition of 1899”. Diena goes on to state that the stamps were<br />
probably accepted as 2 grana paying double the inland rate, as when he<br />
originally saw the piece it was larger but nevertheless had no trace of a<br />
charge mark in manuscript on it.<br />
The piece with both stamps known showing the error is illustrated in the<br />
handbook “I francobolli degli ultimi Re” by Nino Aquila, figure 18 and<br />
discussed fully in Williams “Encycloaedia” on page 161. Signed Alberto Bolaffi,<br />
Alberto Diena, Grioni, Renato Mondolfo. Certicate Colla (2007), Brun (2011),<br />
Calves (2011).<br />
Ex collection Baron Ferrary de la Rénotière, Conte Gerli, Alfredo Gerli,<br />
Alberto Bolaffi, G. Barcella.<br />
Cat. Yvert 18c. Sassone 2e.<br />
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