Jean Pierre Moquette (July 5, 1856 – February 26, 1927) moved from the

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in 1873. He worked as a bookkeeper at the sugar plantation and factory 'Kremboeng', in

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near Surabaya. He was also a stamp and coin dealer in Surabaya. He became known for the alterations of stamps and

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. Besides philately,

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and his bookkeeping work in the sugar business, he was a researcher in the field of

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. 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

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. In the early 1900s he did

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and historical research for which in 1924 he was appointed correspondent for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in

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. The Dutch Tropen Museum has a painting of Moquette by

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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 Jean-Baptiste Philippe Constant Moens (27 May 1833, Tournai – 28 April 1908) was a Belgian philatelist recognized as the first dealer in stamps for collectors. He was one of the original philatelic journalists. Youth Moens began collecting ...

. He added private framed text around the official imprints of stationery cards. In consequence, cards altered as such were officially declared invalid by July 29, 1878. 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

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. 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'

Indonesian Numismatic Cabinet

In 1900 he founded the Indonesian Numismatic Cabinet in which he was active as

. He wrote the numismatic standard work "The coins of the Indies" which was published in the years 1906-1910 in the Journal of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, and articles on the Hindu coins of Java.

Ethnographic and historical research

In the early 1900s Moquette did

and historical research on Muslim tomb inscriptions and the ancient history of North Sumatra and the

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peninsula. On 24 April 1924 he was appointed correspondent for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in

for the "Afdeling Letterkunde" (department of literature).Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen
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References

Works cited

* Broekman, J.H. ''Geuzendam's catalogus (1961)'' De postzak. * Bulterman, Paul. ''het Java provisorium (July 2003)'' De postzak. * Costerus Pzn., W.P. ''Indische Poststukken met valschen opdruk (1925)'' Nederlandsch Maandblad voor Philatelie. * Hermann, Ad. ''Aufdruck Briefkarte Geuzendam 3 von 1879 (Sept 15, 1888'' Der Philatelist. * Djajadiningrat, Hoessein. ''Moquette biographie (1927)'' Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. * Kruse, Hans. ''De creaties van J.P. Moquette, een overzicht. '' Website: posthistorie Nederlands Indië puntstempels 1874 - 189
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* Mulders, E.J.P. ''Jean Pierre Moquette (August 1965)'' Nederlandsch Maandblad voor Philatelie. * Nederlandse Vereniging van Poststukken en Poststempel Verzamelaars ''Geuzendam’s Catalogus van de postwaardestukken van Nederland en Overzeese Rijksdelen. (7th ed. 1997, p. 76)'' * Storm van Leeuwen, Peter. ''Geene Olla Podrida (December 2003)'' De postzak. * Van der Vlist, H.W. ''Vervalste opdrukken op de Nederlands-Indische hulpuitgifte van 1902 en enige informatie over Moquette (Sept 2007)'' Filatelie. * Weatley, Richard. ''Moquette, Used Examples of his Creations.'' Website ASPN

* Voss, A.C. ''Moquette (1926)'' Nederlandsch Maandblad voor Philatelie. {{DEFAULTSORT:Moquette, Jean Pierre 1856 births 1927 deaths Dutch philatelists Dutch ethnographers Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Hof van Twente People from the Dutch East Indies

Philatelic creations

Indonesian Numismatic Cabinet

Ethnographic and historical research

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References

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