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Post Office Mauritius (18/19), one penny, used (XVIII) + one penny, used (XIX) (1847)
Gallery
- From
- 1847
- To
- 1847
- Functions
- Cover and Stamp
- Location
- Private hands
- Summary
1d (two stamps). Used on a folded letter, the stamps have large margins and are lightly cancelled with two impressions of an obliteration of parallel bars; also, the right-hand stamp bears part of an impression of ‘2’ in a single-lined circle. The front of the letter bears a crowned MAURITIUS GPO broken double-lined circular postmark dated 4 January 1850.
Details
Events
- 1850
- Used on a folded letter addressed to ‘Thos. Jerrom Esqr., Secretary to the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society, The Esplanade, Bombay’.
- 1897
- Charles Howard bought the letter, together with some others, in an Indian bazaar for a sum reported from between five rupees to £50.
- 1898
- British dealer W. H. Peckitt bought the letter in November for £1,600 then sold it to Vernon Roberts for £1,800.
- 1905
- W. H. Peckitt bought back the letter for £2,000.
- 1906
- American collector George Worthington bought the letter for £2,200.
- 1917
- Alfred Lichtenstein bought part of Worthington’s collection, including the Mauritius portion.
- 1947
- Lichtenstein bequeathed his collection to his daughter, Louise Boyd Dale.
- 1968
- The Dale-Lichtenstein collection was auctioned by H. R. Harmer (Boyd Dale died in 1967) and the Jerrom letter was bought for a record price, $380,000, by Raymond H. Weill Co.
- 1989
- Auctioned by Christie’s Robson Lowe in Zurich, but withdrawn from sale at SFr.2,600,000.
- 1990
- Purchased privately by Dr Chan Chin Cheung.
- 1996
- Bought by Guido Craveri, an Italian dealer.
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... ]
- 'Post Office Mauritius 1d.', The Philatelist, vol. 43, no. 3, December 1976, pp. 74-75. [ Details... ]
- Harmer, C. H. C., 'The "Thos. Jerrom" Mauritius Letter', London Philatelist, vol. 78, no. 913, January 1969, pp. 10-12. [ Details... ]
- Ibbotson, Peter, 'Langrishe Banks, Mauritius Letter Writer', The Philatelist, vol. 43, no. 10, July 1977, p. 301. [ Details... ]
- Moens, Jean-Baptiste, 'Encore les Post-Office de Maurice', Le Timbre-Poste, no. 441, September 1899, pp. 141-42. [ Details... ]
- Moens, Jean-Baptiste, 'Encore les Post-Office de Maurice', Le Timbre-Poste, no. 438, June 1899, pp. 87-93. [ Details... ]
- Williams, L. N., 'Mauritius 1847 1d - The Letter Writer and the Recipient', The Philatelist, vol. 43, no. 6, March 1977, pp. 172-73. [ Details... ]
Journal Notes
- 'Two More "Post Office" Mauritius', London Philatelist, vol. 7, no. 82, October 1898, pp. 269-70. [ Details... ]
- 'Another Find of "Post Office" Mauritius', Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly, 15 October 1898, p. 10. [ Details... ]
- 'More "Post Office" Mauritius', The Philatelic Record, no. 20, December 1898, p. 272. [ Details... ]
- 'Encore deux!', Le Timbre-Poste, no. 429, September 1898, pp. 138-39. [ Details... ]
- 'The "Post Office" Mauritius', London Philatelist, vol. 12, no. 136, April 1903, p. 84. [ Details... ]
Letter to the Editors
- Ibbotson, Peter, 'Arising from that Mauritius Cover', The Philatelist, vol. 43, no. 5, February 1977, p. 136. [ Details... ]
- Williams, Norman, 'Norman Williams Replies', The Philatelist, vol. 43, no. 5, February 1977, pp. 136-37. [ Details... ]
Newspaper Articles
- Howard, Phillip, 'Armoured Escort for Two Penny Stamps', The Times, 14 October 1968, p. 1. [ Details... ]
- Phillips, McCandlish, 'Two Penny Stamps Sold for $380,000', The New York Times, 22 October 1968, p. 1, 32. [ Details... ]
Newspaper Notes
- '£158,333 for Envelope', The Times, 22 October 1968, p. 1. [ Details... ]
Created: 14 March 2006, Last modified: 21 August 2006