Provenance:
ex Ferrary (sale #11, lot
38: 22,000 FF), ex Loeuillet and Champion
References:
Ceres
#T4, Yvert #4c
illustrated in 1954 Life Magazine article
illustrated in 2000 Yvert & Tellier Specialisé catalog
Census
of unused:
block of ten
this example is one of two
known pairs
Production
information:
Three
plates of 150 were prepared but only two were used, plate two had tęte-bęche
cliché at position 131. A total of 45.2 million stamps were printed from both
plates.
Approximately 136 thousand tęte-bęche pairs were issued.
