Ordre d'achat - Galerie Dreyfus

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MAURITIUS
129 1847: ‘POST OFFICE’ 1d. orange-red, the famous used example cancelled by barred H 250 000 - 300 000
obliterator in black, of fine appearance for this great philatelic rarity, the
adhesive being cut close at base and touched at top and at right, full
strengthened margin at left. The stamp has small repairs at upper left and at
lower right where carefully re-backed and repainted. Despite these
imperfections this is one of just two collectable examples of this rarity,
being one of the five found by Madame Borchard in 1864. Two mint examples and
thirteen used are recorded. Of these thirteen used stamps, at least ten are now
housed in museum collections, leaving three used examples available to
collectors. Listed as example Number 8 in L. N. Williams “The Encyclopaedia of
Rare and Famous Stamps”. Signed by Thier , Lange and Bartles. Certificate
Edward Muller-Mark (1951), Carl H. Lange (1951), Curt Esser (1952), Sergio
Sismondo (2008) and BPA (2008). Ex collection Madame Borchard, Schiller,
Pouget, Kirchner, Lenz, Breitfuss, Comte de Ramaix.
Cat. 1
The Museum of Communication in Berlin has asked for the loan of the stamp for the exhibition
“The Mauritius - Meeting of the Queens in Berlin” 2 nd - 25 th September 2011.