Flowers of the 47 prefectures (80 yen par value) Example sent to Germany EMS

As a matter of fact, I like the super modern stamps. I don't think no other country in the world ever issued such a tremendas math volume of postage stamps than in Japan these days.

But becuase so many stamps issued in one year, even philatelist lost love for the designs of each stamps and thus I don't hesitate to make them into used stamps or philatelic covers with cancellation. I don't think to get all of them, some times I forgot to make philatelic materials  but as there're PHILANIPPON2011 this July, I went to the post office every day and got many new commemorative stamps in my hand this summer.

What I feel interesting in making philatelic materials is make some special usage covers such as Express or Registered. Double weight and more is also interesting and parcels is very interesting these days. Like classic stamps, the destination to foreign country is always nice, I think. This August I tried to send EMS to myself staying in Germany and I got a nice example. Show you.

Top three rows of 2011 Japan Flowers of the 47 prefectures (80 yen par value) at 2400 yen. It is a fee for EMS to Germany weight 710gram, though it was below 700gram when calculated in the post office (so the fee is 2200 yen, too much 200yen) , sent on Aug. 25th, 2011 with the alphabetical roller cancellation of GAIENMAE post office (Minato-ku)I think it becomes a nice cover , though I usually don't ask the postman how to cancel.   

Souvenir sold at the Blue Mauritius Stamp Exhibition, Berlin

This post will be the last one about the Blue Mauritius Post Office stamps exhibition. I'd like to Introduction you some goods sold there.



I was presented when I got back from a ceremony on Sep.1st, instead of non-selling goods, this "stamp in stamp" is for sale at the shop.




They also used the commemoration cancellation. I think the date is interesting. The Blue Mauritius stamp exhibition starts on Sep. 2nd as described in the commemoration cancellation, however the first day of cancellation is Sep. 1st. Is it used only in the museum on the first day?




What I disappointed to buy is this post-it goods. There is two pence blue on the cover with nothing but white paper in it. It cost only a few euro, but I don't want it.





What I enjoyed is again fake of mint Post Office stamps. It costs me 15 euro but I bought two copies.





I think I can cut it out later to make one leaf collection with a fake Bordeaux cover I showed you in my past blog post.

Bordeaux 1847 Mauritius cover

Today I show you the goods I got at the Blue Mauritius show. The famous Bordeaux cover franking two kinds of Mauritius Post Office stamps!

Someone found it in my last blog, but this is a private reprint of the famous cover and is sold for 10 EUR at the museum shop in the communication museum, Berlin. Franking two kinds of 1847, Post Office stamps, cancelled with black rectangular PENNY POST cancellation of Port Louis, sent on Oct. 4th, 1847 and arrived at Bordeaux on Dec. 28th. This is the only cover franking two kinds of the stamps.

This cover was owned by Mr.Lichtenstein, Mr.Hind and Mr. Kanai. Mr. Kanai bought it for million USD in 1971 and sold it for 3.8million USD in 1988. The owner now get it for around the same price in 1993. I think there is a possibility the owner is an investor.
By the way because this is a private reprint manufactured recently, you can not allowed to show one on the competitive stamp exhibition. It is probable more than ten thousand copies are manufactured, it is also not rare at all. But I like this one because it is manufactured very well with the documents of the cover(you can see the letter), stamps are made by themselves and attached to the envelope and cancelled.
I don't think no regular philatelist will be cheated by this cover because it is too much popular and is estimated several million. So philatelists can only get the happiness with the rare item or the knowledge .

Mauritius Post Office Stamp Exhibition

There is a stamp event named "the Blue Mauritius" in Communicateion museum in Berlin until Sep. 25th, 2011.This exhibition shows only 2 kinds of Post Office stamps of Mauritius. I was invited to both of the opening event (Sep. 1st) and lecture "collokium" (Sep. 2nd) , so I'll write them on this blog.

"All the Stamps of the World - First Decade - " shows you Mauritius as the 8th first country issueing the stamps, though far away from the Continent where philatelists gather, it took several month for the philatelists to find this first issue of the stamps in Mauritius. That is why only 26 stamps exists in the world including all the mint, used, covers of the 2 stamps.


The existing number of several stamps are one or two and much less than this Mauritius Post Office stamps, however, this one is very very popular among the philatelists. The reason I think is 1) this is a classical stamp 2)no doubt for the issue itself 3)no overprinted stamps, so no doubt of forged overprint. The estimate value is one million euro in used condition, 3to6million for covers. Wealthy philatelists used to have one before, however when they have to sell them, philatelic museums or non-philatelist investors started to get them. So it is not so easy to see it in private market.

This exhibition show 18 stamps out of 26 existing Post Office stamps and I think this number is first and probably the last. I enjoyed seeing stamps very much, I also had a fun in getting the guidebook of this show. It listed all this 18 stamps in English &German with many photoes. You can enjoy how each Post Office stamps are looked for and some other stories like reprint of this stamp.

Guidebook & Post Office Cover

246page full color
articles;


The printing plate of the Mauritius Post Office issue(! David Beech) Head of the Br. Library, Philatelic Collections
Die Blaue Mauritius(Helen Morgan) The writer of "Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps"


The Imperial Postal Museum's Mauritius Post Office stamps(! Andread Hahn) Keeper of the Philatelic Archieve of the Museum Foundation Post & Telecommunication

George V the Philatelist King(! Douglas Muir) Curator, Philately at the British Postal Museum&Archive, London

The Mauritius Post Office stamps (Vikram Chand) The Mauritius Post Office stamps of reproductions, reprints and all manner of dubious things(Wolfgang Maassen) President of the Association Internationale des Journalisted Philateliques

Erreur et rarete en philatelis Le cas des Mauritius Post Office(! Emmanuel Richon) Keeper of Blue Penny Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius

Are there still channenges in Mauritius philately?(John Shawley)
On the trail of the Blue Mauritius -in East Germany and the East Bloc(◎ Veit Didczuneit)

Legendary names, renowuned collectors, fortune agents (Wolfgang Maassen)

The crown jewels in the United Kingdom's history of communications: The Post Office stamps (Wolfgang Jakubek)

A little knowledge is a harmless thing - Findings from a survey ofn the Blue Mauritius(Astrid Staudinger他)

The biographies of all the Mauritius Post Office stamps(Jan Billion and more)

 

Most of the theme in the conference named "Collocium" , held on Sep. 2nd, were the contents of this guidebook.
So I studied reading the guidebook the day before the Collocium to understand the conference better.

The man with ! mark above is those who made a speech in the collocium too.
I enjoyed every conference, though it was a pity Mrs. Helen Morgan, the writer of "Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps" didn't come to the show.

Kolloquium 2. September 2011

This photo shows how the conference was. only 60 people are invited and I'm the only man from Aisian countries. (to be continued....)