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Post Office Mauritius (14), two pence, unused (XIV) (1847)
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- From
- 1847
- To
- 1847
- Functions
- Stamp
- Location
- Tapling Collection, British Library, London
- Summary
2d. Unused. The stamp has been repaired and part of the inscription at the foot crudely redrawn.
Details
Events
- 1847
- Used on a letter to Borchard at Bordeaux.
- 1865
- Found by Madame Borchard, who later (date unknown) exchanged the stamp with, or sold it to, a Bordeaux collector.
- 1875
- The owner sold the collection to the dealer Madame Desbois for Fr.500 (£20). The ‘Post Office’ stamp was extracted and bought by Jean-Baptiste Moens for Fr.300 (£12) in August. Moens sold it soon after to Philipp von Ferrary for Fr.600 (£24).
- 1886
- Ferrary exchanged the stamp with Thomas Keay Tapling for, it is thought, a pair of Poonch stamps.
- 1891
- The British Museum received Tapling’s collection as a bequest.
- 1973
- Tapling Collection transferred to the British Library.
Prepared by: Helen Morgan
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Bibliography
Books
- 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... ]
Journal Articles
- 'Mauritius Post Office', Deutsche Briefmarken Zeitung, vol. 15, no. 2, 29 February 1904, pp. 21-25. [ Details... ]
- Armstrong, D. B., 'Postage-Stamp Romances', The Strand Magazine, April 1914, pp. 287-92. [ Details... ]
- Moens, Jean-Baptiste, 'Encore les Post-Office de Maurice', Le Timbre-Poste, no. 438, June 1899, pp. 87-93. [ Details... ]
Journal Notes
- 'Encore les Post Office de Maurice', Le Philatéliste Francais, no. 75, May 1900. [ Details... ]
- 'The Press on Philately: "The Craze of Stamp Collection"', Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly, vol. 9, no. 227, 21 November 1903, p. 156. [ Details... ]
Created: 14 March 2006, Last modified: 21 August 2006