This is the famous Museum (Blue Penny Museum) Führ Kommunikation Berlin, one of the richest philatelic museums in the world, will be held during the month of September a stamp exhibition entitled "The Blue Penny - The meeting of the Queens in Berlin." The red and blue Post Office Mauritius, usually presented at the Blue Penny Museum, which are among the rarest stamps and the most expensive in the world, will be exhibited there. This is neither more nor less than the most ambitious philatelic exhibition of all time since it will bring together 18 of the 27 Post Office known worldwide.
One Penny Red vermilion and 500 Two Pence Blue. Only five copies of the first (two unused) and twelve second (including four unused) survived the test of time. Two stamps ever used, returned to the fold through the sale of 1993 in D. Feldman and the establishment of a consortium of 16 Mauritian companies clustered around the Mauritius Commercial Bank, are proudly displayed together at the Blue Penny Museum in Port Louis Mauritius.
Why such popularity of Blue Penny Museum?
Philately is certainly one of the most popular human activities in the world. There are more than philatelists lovers soccer players on the planet. There is no nation which has not issued stamps in the past. It is even one of the first royal prerogatives that any state which respects itself, symbolically is to assume from birth. In one country, the People's China, there are over 40 million amateur collectors of postage stamps. You who read this article, do not you known in your own family, at least a philatelist? Collecting stamps is the easiest activity there is. Collect stamps mail, select, process, classify, present, show, exchange ... are all core activities of socialization and, if we understand that the stamp was, in general, the subject of a trans-generational transmission, enabled a host of induced learning, which are universal and educational nature. The modest realized and piously preserved album, constituted in many cases, the only book written and shared the pride of life, and often, a rediscovered childhood. Collecting stamps is how the most popular and most widespread activity that is conceivable.
Internet, far from diminishing the widespread appeal of the stamps, paid to them their strict collection value and aesthetic appeal, significantly reducing its use, but promoting contacts between timbrophiles and transcending borders.
While stressing the viscerally popular side of philately, how not to be also struck by the extreme rarity of some stamps and tiny seraglio properly inaccessible rarities collectors. While not seasoned amateur, who does not know well, these are the exceptions that Bordeaux Cover or both famous Blue and Red Mauritius Post Office?
At the other extreme, to the top of the pyramid, legends are built, private and closed session for the elite collectors, scenarios of incredible miraculous or acquisitions, patiently detected minute details with a magnifying glass, the builders infinite history and romantic gems in a universe that is the foundation, so popular. A dream is built, a specific world of collector living his passion intensely and with devotion. Slightly open the seraglio in question is switch to a passion which irrationality has its place.
Why such a value of Blue Penny Museum?
Obviously, the first objective reason of such value that comes immediately to mind is the simple law of supply and demand: many buyers, few are chosen. The degree of fascination for these stamps is such that they are somehow the result forced the course of a silver philatelist, the culmination of a distinguished collection longtime business and sometimes several generations, the point organ of the finest pieces and most exceptional rarities.
However, assuming that the only law of Supply and Demand is sufficient to explain the immense value would then clear up the fundamental reason for this scarcity itself ...
What would make the rarity of a stamp is paradoxically its own character, its exceptionality, its uniqueness. More uniqueness is recognized and demonstrated, the more he will be entitled to approach the notion of a work of art and its aura is immense. It was in 1931 that the philosopher Walter Benjamin introduced the term in his essay has little history of photography, followed in 1936 by The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility, to characterize it in his eyes the specificity of the work of art that is unique, tied to a specific location and which is part of history. For him, the technical reproducibility results in the loss of the aura. He insists that the value of the plastic work of art in the West is closely linked to the unique character of the original, giving it a form of authority.
One Penny Red vermilion and 500 Two Pence Blue. Only five copies of the first (two unused) and twelve second (including four unused) survived the test of time. Two stamps ever used, returned to the fold through the sale of 1993 in D. Feldman and the establishment of a consortium of 16 Mauritian companies clustered around the Mauritius Commercial Bank, are proudly displayed together at the Blue Penny Museum in Port Louis Mauritius.
Why such popularity of Blue Penny Museum?
Philately is certainly one of the most popular human activities in the world. There are more than philatelists lovers soccer players on the planet. There is no nation which has not issued stamps in the past. It is even one of the first royal prerogatives that any state which respects itself, symbolically is to assume from birth. In one country, the People's China, there are over 40 million amateur collectors of postage stamps. You who read this article, do not you known in your own family, at least a philatelist? Collecting stamps is the easiest activity there is. Collect stamps mail, select, process, classify, present, show, exchange ... are all core activities of socialization and, if we understand that the stamp was, in general, the subject of a trans-generational transmission, enabled a host of induced learning, which are universal and educational nature. The modest realized and piously preserved album, constituted in many cases, the only book written and shared the pride of life, and often, a rediscovered childhood. Collecting stamps is how the most popular and most widespread activity that is conceivable.
Internet, far from diminishing the widespread appeal of the stamps, paid to them their strict collection value and aesthetic appeal, significantly reducing its use, but promoting contacts between timbrophiles and transcending borders.
While stressing the viscerally popular side of philately, how not to be also struck by the extreme rarity of some stamps and tiny seraglio properly inaccessible rarities collectors. While not seasoned amateur, who does not know well, these are the exceptions that Bordeaux Cover or both famous Blue and Red Mauritius Post Office?
At the other extreme, to the top of the pyramid, legends are built, private and closed session for the elite collectors, scenarios of incredible miraculous or acquisitions, patiently detected minute details with a magnifying glass, the builders infinite history and romantic gems in a universe that is the foundation, so popular. A dream is built, a specific world of collector living his passion intensely and with devotion. Slightly open the seraglio in question is switch to a passion which irrationality has its place.
Why such a value of Blue Penny Museum?
Obviously, the first objective reason of such value that comes immediately to mind is the simple law of supply and demand: many buyers, few are chosen. The degree of fascination for these stamps is such that they are somehow the result forced the course of a silver philatelist, the culmination of a distinguished collection longtime business and sometimes several generations, the point organ of the finest pieces and most exceptional rarities.
However, assuming that the only law of Supply and Demand is sufficient to explain the immense value would then clear up the fundamental reason for this scarcity itself ...
What would make the rarity of a stamp is paradoxically its own character, its exceptionality, its uniqueness. More uniqueness is recognized and demonstrated, the more he will be entitled to approach the notion of a work of art and its aura is immense. It was in 1931 that the philosopher Walter Benjamin introduced the term in his essay has little history of photography, followed in 1936 by The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility, to characterize it in his eyes the specificity of the work of art that is unique, tied to a specific location and which is part of history. For him, the technical reproducibility results in the loss of the aura. He insists that the value of the plastic work of art in the West is closely linked to the unique character of the original, giving it a form of authority.
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