Mauritius Post Office Limbo I

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The Mauritius Post Office Limbo I is a red 1-penny copy of the 27 well-known Red and Blue Mauritius .

features

The postage stamp with the Moens number XXVII (Limbo) is partially unused, although it was provided with two intersecting lines of ink. Around the early 1970s, someone made an attempt to chemically remove these ink streaks, which would bleach the orange color of the brand. The brand was then restored.

history

In 1870 Jean-Baptiste Moens bought the stamp from a Belgian stamp collector, but there is no evidence of this in the literature of the time. In the 1890s it passed to the Belgian banker Van Bierbat. Then in 1940 René Berlingin bought it . In the early 1970s it was bought by a stamp dealer in Düsseldorf. In May 1971, Hiroyuki Kanai declined an offer for the collectible. Then the German industrialist Schulze exchanged it for a motor yacht, the new owner Schulze died in 1974. His son inherited the collection and discovered the brand; In 2008 he contacted the auction house Dr. Derichs, which she auctioned in Essen in 2009 for 210,000 euros to a new owner from Germany.

literature

  • Jan Billion, David Feldman, Andreas Hahn: The biographies of all Mauritius post office stamps. In: Lieselotte Kugler, Andreas Hahn (Ed.): The Blue Mauritius. The meeting of the queens in Berlin. A publication by the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications. Exhibition catalog in German and English, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813202-1-3 , p. 232 f
  • Wolfgang Maassen: The Mauritius Myth (1): A forgotten “Post Office Mauritius” appears again! In: philately issue 375, September 2008, pp. 44–47 (title topic)
  • LN Williams: Encyclopaedia of Rare and Famous Stamps. Volume 2 (The Biographies), Publisher: David Feldman, Geneva 1997, ISBN 2-9700125-1-0 , p. 146
  • Social event. Red Mauritius at Dr. Derichs. In: Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung edition 13/2009 of June 19, 2009, p. 21

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jan Billion, David Feldman, Andreas Hahn: The biographies of all Mauritius post office stamps. In: Lieselotte Kugler, Andreas Hahn (Ed.): The Blue Mauritius. The meeting of the queens in Berlin. A publication by the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications. Exhibition catalog in German and English, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813202-1-3 , p. 232 f
  2. ↑ a b Uta Knapp: Mauritius almost at a bargain price - 210,000 euros for a brand legend. on: sz-online.de , May 9, 2009.