1849-1850
Ceres Issue
1 franc rouge brun tęte-bęche
tęte-bęche
on cover to India, plate 1, positions 33-36
Rochefort
4 August 1849 (foreign frankings permitted on August 1, 1849)
References:
Ceres
#T7f, Yvert #6Aa
Census:
the only reported example of this shade
Production
information:
Two
plates of 150 were used, plate one had tęte-bęche cliché at position 35. A
total of only 250 thousand stamps in the four vermilion shades were printed
but 122 thousand were recalled. Only 850 tęte-bęche pairs were issued.
