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This website contains biographical and bibliographical information about the Post Office Mauritius stamps and subjects related to them. It is based on my research for the book Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps.

Post Office Mauritius (06), two pence, unused (VI) (1847)

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From
1847
To
1847
Location
Museum voor Communicatie, Den Haag, Netherlands
Summary

2d. Unused. There is a blue spot over the letter AU of MAURITIUS. The design is cut into at the bottom right.

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Events

1847
Used on a letter to Borchard at Bordeaux.
1869
Found by Madame Borchard (in 1869 or earlier). The stamp was acquired by the dealer Madame Desbois, who sold the stamp to Legrand for Fr.250 (£10).
1897
Dealer Théophile Lemaire bought Legrand’s collection in July, valuing VI and VII at Fr.30,000 (£1,200). Both VI and VII sold later that year to Jules Bernichon for Fr.46,500 (£1,860).
1898
Henry Duveen bought VI for £1,200.
1909
Dealer W. H. Peckitt obtained both VI and XX (the Adam ball envelope) from Duveen in part exchange for III and X. Peckitt then sold VI and XX to Dutch collector Henry Manus.
1933
The Manus collection was auctioned by Plumridge (Manus died in 1931) and both VI (£1,750) and XX (£2,400) were bought by dealer Tom Allen.
193 (?)
Acquired by King Carol of Romania.
1950
Both VI and XX were sold privately through the agency of Harmer, Rooke & Co. Ltd to Belgian collector René Berlingin.
1971
Both VI and XX were offered for sale at Stanley Gibbons’s ‘Anphilex’ New York auction, but VI remained unsold.
1972
Auctioned by Edgar Mohrmann in Hamburg and purchased by a European collector, the then owner of I and II.
1994
Purchased by the PTT Museum, The Hague, which later became the Museum voor Communicatie (Dutch Museum for Communication).

Prepared by: Helen Morgan

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