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A
LITTLE ABOUT JEAN SPERATI

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Left
- my
very
attractive
Sperati ex
Gray
at
$4,500. Right
-
Appalling
looker
just
sold
by
SG
Sydney
Nov
28
for
$4,770! |
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1913 £2 Roo Sperati FORGERY - ex Arthur Gray Collection; Choice looking "used" example of the remarkable forgery created by Jean de Sperati, who made his forgeries by "fading out" genuine used lower values. This ensured the stamp had a genuine watermark and cancellation and perfs. He then printed the forged impression by 2 colour photo-lithography managing somehow to get the ink UNDER the cancellation. Dated 1913 "N.S.W." c.d.s., well centered and nice margined, and as the Gray cat called this example: "extremely fine and rare". A trivial re-inforced corner perf not mentioned in Shreves description. It is estimated that only two "mint" copies are known, and about two dozen "used" copies - according to ACSC. With "Sperati Reproduction/114" handstamp on reverse from BPA. (Indicating the Sperati different type, not number of them made!) ACSC cat $5,000. In the large section dedicated to Sperati forgery items at the Sotheby's Gawaine Baillie sale in January 2007, the Australian 1913 £2 Sperati Kangaroo die proof brought £3,720 (then = $A9,300) - a world record price for any individual Sperati forgery item. Several of these exist. After that sale Sperati is RED hot. This stamp shows perfectly the main characteristic of the forgery ... the fine white line from Melbourne to the "UN" of "Pounds". Sperati's forgery skill was so great, this looks as good or better than the issued £2. For complete details on the Gray sale, click - www.glenstephens.com/arthur-gray-kangaroos
A quite cruddy looking copy of this £2 Sperati just sold at Stanley Gibbons Sydney in late November 28, 2007 for $A4,770, so my $4,500 is a BARGAIN! Just LOOK at how UGLY that stamp was! - www.tinyurl.com/3xzv3u
I was delighted to read in the April
'Stamp News' that in Rodney Perry's detailed review of the 849 lot Gray sale, he rated my purchase of this as among the 10 best value buys of the entire sale. Pointing out rightly these sold for that price a decade ago, well before the massive rise in Roo values overall. These Speratis have in the past always sold for a LOT more than normal 1913 £2 used roos, so these should really be $8,000 type items today. Read a lot more about the amazing Jean Sperati here -
www.glenstephens.com/sperati.html - and a real bargain at well under the out of date ACSC price - $A4,500
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