1849-1850
Ceres Issue
1 franc carmin brun tęte-bęche
unused
tęte-bęche pair, plate 1, positions 35-36
Provenance:
ex
Ferrary (sale #11, lot 87: 15,000 FF), ex Gill and Burrus
References:
Ceres
#T6c, Yvert #6Ba
Census of unused in carmine brown:
this is the finer of two pairs
Production
information:
Two
plates of 150 were used for the one franc. Plate one had tęte-bęche cliché at position 35.
This plate was used to print the carmine browns. A total of 260 thousand
stamps were printed including only 1700 errors.
