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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.
Details
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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Bibliography
Books
- Boissevain, Charles F. C. G., Post Office in Nederland: Blauwe Mauritius 1847 in het Nederlandse PTT Museum, Stichting Het Nederlandse PTT Museum, Den Haag, 1994. [ Details... ]
- Williams, L. N., Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps, vol. 1 of 2, David Feldman, Geneva, 1993. [ Details... ]
- Williams, L. N., Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps, vol. 2 of 2, David Feldman, Geneva, 1997. [ Details... ]
Editorials
- 'Editorial [value of stamps on the market]', Philatelic Journal of Great Britain, vol. 43, no. 507, March 1933, p. 45, 55. [ Details... ]
Journal Articles
- 'The Exhibition of the South African Colonies', London Philatelist, vol. 11, no. 132, December 1902, pp. 280-81. [ Details... ]
- 'Mauritius Post Office', Deutsche Briefmarken Zeitung, vol. 15, no. 2, 29 February 1904, pp. 21-25. [ Details... ]
- 'The International Philatelic Exhibition, London, 1906', Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, vol. 16, no. 191, 1906, pp. 228-33. [ Details... ]
- 'Editorial - The Exhibition', Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, vol. 16, no. 191, 31 May 1906, pp. 217-18. [ Details... ]
- Moens, Jean-Baptiste, 'Encore les Post-Office de Maurice', Le Timbre-Poste, no. 438, June 1899, pp. 87-93. [ Details... ]
- Plumridge, H. W., 'Philately in Paris. A Paper Read Before the City of London Philatelic Club', Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly, vol. 4, no. 83, 27 November 1897, pp. 39-40. [ Details... ]
Journal Notes
- 'The Post Office Mauritius', London Philatelist, vol. 6, no. 71, November 1897, pp. 325-26. [ Details... ]
- 'Two More "Post Office" Mauritius', London Philatelist, vol. 7, no. 82, October 1898, pp. 269-70. [ Details... ]
Online Resources
- 'De Blauwe Mauritius: parel op onze kroon', http://www.muscom.nl/collecties/inhoud/artikel/091.htm. [ Details... ]
See also
- 'A Soliloquy [There are no Post Office in the list before us]', The Philatelic Record, March 1904, p. 66. [ Details... ]
Created: 14 March 2006, Last modified: 21 August 2006