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Welcome to the Blue Mauritius Research Companion

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.

Lagerloef, Hans (1880 - 1952)

Born
1880
Died
1952
Occupation
Post Office owner
Summary

Hans Lagerloef was a generous philatelist, and donated many of his collections during his lifetime to institutions, including the Smithsonian. Some time after 1912 he acquired both values of the Post Office stamps. He did so, it seems, with the intent of gifting the stamps to the Swedish postal museum, for he didn’t want his own country's postal museum to be outshone by the Reichspostmuseum in Berlin.

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Prepared by: Helen Morgan