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Journal Note
- Author
- Walser, Robert
- Title
- Post Office Mauritius Stamps
- In
- Collectors Club Philatelist
- Imprint
- vol. 12, no. 1, January 1933, p. 13
- Abstract
Robert Walser of Paris preferred the route of the archives for his stamp hunting. Working on the theory that at least half the known specimens of Post Office stamps were found amongst the records of the firm of Borchard in Bordeaux, and that the most prized of all Post Office items was also found among business records in the archives of Ducau and Lurguie, he approached Monsieur Blondel, the proprietor of the piano firm of Erard. The nineteenth-century inhabitants of Port Louis were known to be great aficionados of the piano, and the Erard brand was noted in contemporary travel narratives on Mauritius. Walser’s idea was good, and he did find twenty-four letters addressed to the Maison Erard from Mauritius in the period 1847-48, but none, unfortunately, were franked with stamps.