Adriaan "Aat" de Peijper (died 1998)
[Jan Kas]
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'' Reformatorisch Dagblad'', 28 April 2004. was a Dutch industrialist and
philatelist whose collection of Dutch, Dutch colonial, and British Commonwealth stamps included several world rarities.
Career
Until 1976 De Peijper was director of a pharmaceutical distribution company in
Etten-Leur.
[ De Peijper and his company Centrafarm won a number of court battles concerning their redistribution of medicines within the EU, including some against Sterling Drug / Winthrop that are considered landmark cases.
]
Philately
De Peijper began collecting stamps from a young age but according to his wife Mrs M.W. de Peijper-Pieksma, it was not until later in life that he was able to afford the more expensive items missing from his collection. He bought many items from the Samos collection, and also items formerly in the Boker, Burrus
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, Casapry, and Dale-Lichtenstein collections.[''The Collection Aat de Peijper''. De Nederlandsche Postzegelveiling, Amsterdam, 2013. pp. 4-5.]
His collection was principally of the stamps of the Netherlands, with a focus on the first issue, the British Commonwealth and Dutch colonies. Among the rarities in the collection was a 1925 Kenya and Uganda £100 (SG105) unused plate number
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postage stamp (signed A. Diena in the margin), one of four unused copies known in private collections and museums.[ Another rare item was a 1925 unused Ceylon 1000R (SG323) plate number single with a certificate by Friedl. Both were formerly in the Samos collection. The de Peijper collection was auctioned by De Nederlandsche Postzegelveiling in 2013, with the £100 Kenya and Uganda stamp reckoned to be the most valuable stamp ever to be auctioned in the Netherlands.][Rare British Commonwealth Stamp to Be Auctioned at Dutch Auction House NPV.]
Reuters, 25 October 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
Stamps of the de Peijper collection
File:East Africa & Uganda Protectorates 1912 500R.jpg, 1912, East Africa & Uganda Protectorates, 500R. Formerly in the Samos collection.[''The Collection Aat de Peijper'', p. 17.]
File:1925 Ceylon 1000R (SG323) plate number single.jpg, 1925, Ceylon 1000R plate number single.
File:Kenya & Uganda £100 SG105.jpg, 1925, Kenya & Uganda £100 plate number single.
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1998 deaths
Dutch philatelists
Dutch businesspeople
Philately of the Netherlands
People from Etten-Leur
1907 births