Hiroyuki Kanai

Kanai Hiroyuki
Born 16 May 1925
Amagasaki
Died 26 January 2012(2012-01-26) (aged 86)
Osaka
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Businessman
writer
Philatelist

Kanai Hiroyukia (金井宏之; * 16 May 1925 in Amagasaki;[1] † 26 January 2012[2]) was a Japanese businessman, writer and philatelist.[3]

Life

Kanai's father was a wealthy Japanese businessman and at the age of five he began his first stamp collection.[4]:186 At 13, he intensified his hobby and while in university founded two stamp collecting clubs.[5]:178 His first degree was in engineering at Nihon University after which he studied political economy at Waseda University. He then worked for the textile machinery factory founded by one of his grandfathers. Later, he became president of a number of companies[1] such as the Kanai Heavy Industry Co.

Philately

Bordeaux Cover with 1d red and 2d deep blue Mauritius "Post Office" stamps sold by Kanai in 1988 was last auctioned for CHF 5,750,000 in 1993

At first, Kanai was a general stamp collector[1] but after World War II he specialised in the philately of Japan, Finland and the British colonies.[1][6] Through philatelic contacts he became aware of and eventually owned a unique collection of the Red and Blue Mauritius "Post Office" stamps, when he procured a total of six pieces of 27 known copies of this valuable stamps being the largest ever owned by one person. In 1971, he bought the Bordeaux Letter, a cover with both the one penny red and two penny blue stamps addressed to Bordeaux, for 120 million yen. At that time this was about 1 million US dollars, which would possibly equal about 6 million US dollars today. In 1988, he initially sold the Bordeaux Letter;[7]:13 the balance of the Kanai's Mauritius stamps were sold by David Feldman in 1993 at a Zurich auction.[8][9] That part of the Kanai collection, being 183 pages of the classic issues of Mauritius, is listed by the Guinness World Records as the "Most expensive stamp collection".[10] He received many awards and worked most recently as Director of the Stamp Museum Kobe.[6]

Awards

Works

Footnotes

a.^ As is customary in Japan, Kanai, the family name, is a surname and comes before Hiroyuki, the given name, per Japanese naming order.

References and sources

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kanai, Hiroyuki (1981). Classic Mauritius. The Locally Printed Postage Stamps 1847–59. London: Stanley Gibbons. ISBN 0-85259-251-5.
  2. ↑ "Deaths". The London Philatelist (London: Royal Philatelic Society London) 121 (1393): 73. 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  3. 1 2 Feldman, David (6 February 2012). "Hiroyuki Kanai (1925–2012)". David Feldman. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Morgan, Helen (2006). Blue Mauritius. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 9781590200773.
  5. ↑ Kugler, Lieselotte; Hahn Andreas (2011). Die Blaue Mauritius : das Treffen der Königinnen in Berlin ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Die Blaue Mauritius. Das Treffen der Königinnen in Berlin" (02. bis 25. September 2011). Berlin: Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation: Berlin. ISBN 9783981320213. OCLC 775130326.
  6. 1 2 Fraser, Paul (24 March 2010). "The Collections of Hiroyuki Kanai". Paul Fraser Collectables. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  7. ↑ Braunschweig, Borek (1998). 150 Jahre Faszination Mauritius – Das Kronjuwel der Philatelie.
  8. ↑ Baadke, Michael (2014). "These stamps are the legends of the hobby". Refresher Course. Linns Stamp News. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  9. ↑ Verra, Ricky (6 November 2013). "20th Anniversary of the Hiroyuki Kanai Auction of Mauritius". David Feldman. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Most expensive stamp collection". Guinness World Records. 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Lichtenstein Award". Collectors Club of New York. 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2015.


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