Blue Mauritius

Released earlier this month, Helen Morgan's Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Stamps looks like a must read anyone interested in a good philatelic adventure.

It is the story of some of the world's most fascinating stamps - the 1847 'Post Office' stamps of Mauritius.

According to the British Library Philatelic Collections Web site, "Altogether, only fourteen copies of the 1d orange-red and twelve copies of the 2d deep blue are known to exist today. These stamps are considered as some of the most famous and important of all the philatelic rarities."

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