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First Issues - Mauritius

 

As for Hawaii, I will never own a Mauritius #1 as they are so rare and expensive. An error was made (so the story goes) on the initial issue of 1d red and 2d blue - they were inscribed 'POST OFFICE' rather than 'POST PAID': only 240 of each were printed and of these only 26 are known to exist (14x1d and 12x2d) see here for further details.

The subsequent issues are brilliant primitivist stamps, but still pretty scarce and there are many forgeries in existence, so I am wary of buying anything I can afford, The first inexpensive issue is from 1860, by which time the designs were "standard Victorian", though there are some possible acquisitions in 1858 and 59 -  I will  aim to pick up a few of those. There was a Stamps on Stamps  in 1948, commemorating the centenary of the first British Commonwealth stamp - I'll get a full set of those. There was another commemorative SoS issue in 1999. Both are shown below.

Scott
 #		 SG
#		 Date Notes Value M/U
£ 1999		  
1 1 1847 1 d red £450,000  
2 2 1847 2 d blue £550,000  
3, 5 23 1848 1 d red £1,300
£375		  
4, 6 25 1848 2 d blue £1,700
£475		  
12 26 1854 4d green surcharge £750
£375		  
9 27 1858 (4d) green £425
£200		  
10 28 1858 (6d) red £23
£30		 That's the first I stand any realistic chance of buying.
11 29 1858 (9d) purple £500
£200		  
18 32 1859 6 d blue £500
£28		  
20 33 1859 6 d black £17
£25		  
19 34 1859 1 s red £2,000
£45
21 35 1859 1 s green £325
£80		  
  39 1859 2 d blue £1,100
£400		  
16 42 1859 1 d red £3,000
£750		  
17 44 1859 2 d blue £1,500
£350		  
    1860 Standard Victorians from here on    
  266 1948 Stamps on Stamps

5 c orange and mauve

 10p

30p
  267 1948 12 c orange and green 10p

10p

 
  268 1948 20 c blue 10p

10p

 
  269 1948 1 r blue and brown 15p

30p

 
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 Page added May 2003