Lot# 2082 - Auction 250-256

Telegraphic Period 1917: Recut definitive, colour error 1 a. imperf. emerald-green instead of blue on medium native paper, an irregular block of five from pos. 18-20/27-28 with inverted clichés in positions 18 and 27, fresh with vivid colour and overall large margins, just cut in the margin at right top, cancelled with telegraphic Crescent handstamp of Birganj. A rare and desirable multiple, cert. Hellrigl (1990) Gi = £ 1'100 / Mi 16Bd+16BdK = € 2'180.rnNote: These errors of colour belong to a second state of setting 27 which came into use between 1917 and 1928, with the errors being used first, followed by printruns in different correct shades of blue. Setting 27 shows in total eight inverted clichés in the sheet of 64. Hellrigl & Vignola estimate a total number of emerald errors of colour in existence of about 300 to 350 copies, while no unused examples are known.