"Lafayette" Collection
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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.