Kanai Hiroyuki

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"Bordeaux letter" with both Mauritius postage stamps

Kanai Hiroyuki ( Japanese 金井 宏 之 ; born May 16, 1925 in Amagasaki ; † January 26, 2012 ) was a Japanese businessman, writer and philatelist.

Life

His father was a wealthy businessman and started collecting stamps at the age of five. At the age of 13 he intensified his hobby and founded two collectors' associations during the course of his university studies. He first completed a degree at a technical faculty at Nihon University and then studied political economy at the renowned Waseda University . He then worked for the textile machine factory that his grandfather had founded. He later became president of various companies.

At first he was a general collector and after the Second World War he specialized in stamps from Japan , Finland and the British colonies . He gained fame in philatelic circles with his collection of Red and Blue Mauritius , which was unique at the time , and was able to bring into his possession a total of six of the 27 known examples of this valuable stamp. Among other things, he acquired the " Bordeaux Letter " in 1971 for 120 million yen, which at the time was equivalent to over 1 million US dollars; today it would be over $ 6 million. In 1988 he first sold the “Bordeaux Letter”; He sold the rest of the famous Mauritius brands through the auction house David Feldman in 1993 at an auction in Zurich . He received many awards and was most recently director of the Postage Stamp Museum in Kobe .

Works

  • Mauritius no kitte: 1847-59 ( モ ー リ シ ャ ス の 切 手: 1847-59 ). Gaikoku Kitte Kenkyūkai (Foreign Stamp Research Society) Osaka, 1976
  • Hōsun no miryoku ( 方寸 の 魅力 ). Sōgensha, Osaka 1980
  • Classic Mauritius: The Locally Printed Postage Stamps . Stanley Gibbons, 1981, 144 pages
  • Hōsun itto ( 方寸 一 途 ). Yūshu Bunka Center (Philately Cultural Center), Osaka 1991

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g James Negus: The Author. In: Hiroyuki Kanai: Classic Mauritius. The Locally Printed Postage Stamps 1847-59. Publisher: Stanley Gibbons, London 1981, ISBN 0-85259-251-5 , p. VI
  2. ^ David Feldman obituary , accessed June 15, 2012
  3. ↑ Date of death , accessed June 15, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c d The Collections of Hiroyuki Kanai ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 5, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paulfrasercollectibles.com
  5. ^ Lieselotte Kugler (ed.), Andreas Hahn (ed.): Die Blaue Mauritius. The meeting of the queens in Berlin. A publication of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications 2011, exhibition catalog in German and English, ISBN 978-3-9813202-1-3 , page 178
  6. ↑ a b 150 Years of Fascination Mauritius - The Crown Jewel of Philately , Borek Braunschweig 1998, page 13
  7. ↑ Lichtenstein Award ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2017 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 5, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.collectorsclub.org
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kanai is the family name, Hiroyuki the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kanai, Hiroyuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 金井 宏 之 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese businessman, writer and philatelist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Amagasaki
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2012