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Jean Pierre Moquette (July 5, 1856 – February 26, 1927) moved from the Netherlands to Java in 1873. He worked as a bookkeeper at the sugar plantation and factory 'Kremboeng', in Sidoarjo near Surabaya. He was also stamp and coin dealer in Surabaya. He became known for the alterations of stamps and postal stationery. Besides philately, numismatics and his bookkeeping work in the sugar business, he was a researcher in the field of sugar cane. For his research of cane sowing and crossing he was in 1898 appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau. In 1900 he founded the Indonesian Numismatic Cabinet in which he was active as curator. In the early 1900s he did ethnographic and historical research for which in 1924 he was appointed correspondent for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. The Dutch Tropen Museum has a painting of Moquette by Jan Pieter Veth.〔(Tropen museum online collection - painting of Moquette )〕 ==Philatelic creations== Starting with a handmade postmark Moquette soon produced elaborate cachets, overprints and postal stationery. He sold his items to collectors and some stamp dealers like Jean-Baptiste Moens. When the Dutch Indies U.P.U. foreign postal card rate was reduced to 7 1/2 cents on 1 April 1879 the 12 1/2 cent card was redundant. Moquette provided a two line overprint in blue green reading '5 cent' and sent the cards to Europe for sale as a new surcharge variety. The Belgium dealer Moens was one of those to handle these cards and sold some of them in 1883 to collector Philipp von Ferrary. After 1890 there are no new records of Moquette creations. Postal stationery is known with the cachet 'Forwarded by Moquette Ketegan Soerabaja', little is known however about forwarding activities of Moquette. File:Moquette 1876 cover.jpg| Moquette envelope for the third Agricultural Congress of 1878 at Soerabaija File:Moquette 1874 ovp Gzd1.jpg| Moquette overprint on Dutch Indies 5 cent 1874 postal card File:Moquette 1888 ovp Gzd3c.jpg| Moquette '15 cent' surcharge on 25 cent 1888 envelope File:Moquette ovp NVPH7.jpg| Moquette 'Soerabaya Stampimp(ort)' overprint on 2.5 cent stamp File:Moquette ovp NVPH Port1.jpg| Moquette 'Soerabaya Stampimp(ort)' overprint on 5 cent 1874 postage due File:Moquette 1881 forwarded cachet.jpg| 1881 Postal card to St. Petersburg bearing Moquette cachet: 'Forwarded by Moquette Ketegan Soerabaja' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Pierre Moquette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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