Jean-Baptiste Moens (born the May 27th 1833 with Turned - died the April 28th 1908 to Ixelles) was a Belgian philatelist , considered as one of the first merchants of postage stamps. He was also bookseller, editor and printer.

Biography

His/her mother, Colette Blangenois, are alone to raise it him and her half-brother until her marriage with a soldier in 1838. His/her father, Philippe Moens, are a soldier who left Tournai during the displacement of his regiment. His/her mother held a pub, then with its sons, it followed her husband Jean-Baptiste Coeckx to the liking of displacements of its regiment.

Young person, it makes a small shop of coins and accumulates the first obliterated postage stamps which interest little world then.

He makes initially the trade of new books and occasion in the Galerie Borthier with Brussels. The installation date of its trade is prone to debate: his/her father-in-law is known to have rented a house in the gallery into 1849 before being expelled about it; Moens being done then employed like boy of store in a bookstore. The first license paid by Moens for a bookstore in the Bortier gallery goes back to 1853.

It is about this time that it also sells to with it in a regular way of the stamps, by doing one of the first merchants of professional stamps.

In March 1862, it publishes with Louis Hanciau a Catalog of stamps, the Manuel of the collectors of postage stamps which is a general Nomenclature of all the stamps in the various countries of the universe . This work is the first of the kind in Belgium and the second in French language after that of Parisian the Alfred Potiquet.

Concerned of the topicality of this incipient collection, it publishes in 1862 falsification of the postage stamps to alert the “timbromanes” against the Faux stamp S, and founds the first French-speaking philatelic monthly publication the Postage stamp of 1863 to 1900 which is accompanied by 1874 to 1896 by the Revenue stamp .

It will also publish in 1878, the work the Stamps of Maurice , a book which treats amongst other things Post Office , first stamps of Maurice, among most expensive at the time of auctions. It made him even the acquisition of eight of the twenty-seven specimens of these stamps known nowadays.

Thereafter, the works written by Moens multiply treating emissions of many countries, bringing up to date its catalog and of the stamp albums. It is used of editor and printer with several philatelic authors.

During this time, the trade of Moens thrives and its bookstore also proposes partitions of music and antiquities. In 1871, he moves his trade and his street family of Florence.

He restricts his activities in the years 1880 which are also the time of the honors, like the presidency of the Exposure of postage stamps of Antwerp in 1887. In 1900, it sells the whole of its philatelic stock and its library.

Installed in 1901 boulevard de la Cambre, in Ixelles, it dies there in 1908, four years after his wife Sophie Huys whom it married in December 1854 and with which it had six children.

Homage

October 13rd, 1973 is emitted a postage stamp with the effigy of Moens himself-holding with a label carrying the logotype of the Belgian professional Chambre of the traders in postage stamps. The stamp commemorates its foundation in 1923.

The city of Turned (to Belgium) renamed a street (the old way of Mons) with its name on October 24th, 2005.

Works

• Stamps of Maurice since their origin until our days, 1878,147 pages. Writing starting from the documentation of Edward Benjamin Evans, member of the philatelic Company of London, and Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, the work describes the development, the manufacture and the risks of the emission of the first stamps of Maurice of which the series Post Office and Post Paid .

See too

Sources

• Christelle Harvengt, Jean-Baptiste Moens , memory carried out under the direction of Jean-Pierre Devroey (license in Sciences of the book and the libraries), Universit3e libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 2001. A site was conceived by the author and consultable via web.archive.org.

External bond

• Card and portrait on the site of the Soeteman company (preserved on the web.archive.org site).

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