AR / ITEM / 00100535
Maker unknown
The only known cover bearing both denominations of the 1847 Mauritius Post Office stamps; sold from Hiroyuki Kanai’s collection in 1993.
The Bordeaux Cover preserves both denominations of Mauritius’s first stamp issue on the same piece of mail. Its combination of the one-penny and two-pence Post Office stamps distinguishes this cover from other surviving examples of either stamp. Hiroyuki Kanai bought it through David Feldman in 1988 for US$3.8 million. It returned to auction with Kanai’s Mauritius collection on 3 November 1993, when it realised CHF 6,123,750. These are documented historical transactions, not estimates of its present value. The current owner has not been identified in the sources used here.
David Feldman: twentieth anniversary of the Kanai auction
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