【Summer 2023 Sales Special Features: 1905 MENCARINI PRESENTATION PROOFS】
Large Dragon 1ca., 3ca. and 5ca. in sheetlets of four printed in deep blue-black on thicker wove paper. Imperf., ungummed. Fine and rare, only two sets of sheetlets remain intact.
Mr Juan Mencarini was a member of the Statistical Department of the Customs Office in Shanghai. In 1905, he discovered in a department safe some clichés which be made into blocks of four stamps for each denomination and was given permission to make some impressions. He printed three sheets of each value. Only two sets of complete sheets are known, the other set being in the Starr collection, and there must be four sets of singles.
【夏拍拍品介紹：綿嘉義印樣】
大龍一分銀、三分銀、五分銀四方聯小張，藍黑色、印於厚紙、無齒、無膠。
1905年，綿嘉義在上海関造冊処保管箱内找到了大龍郵票印模，他挑選了比較完好的印模，徵得上級同意，以四方聯方式各印了三張印樣，如今只有兩套存世。
PROVENANCE 源流:
Sir Percival David, July 1970 大衛德爵士
Warren G. Kauder, November 1971
Meiso Mizuhara, January 2016 水原明窗