Blue Mauritius, book cover

Welcome to the Blue Mauritius Research Companion

This website contains biographical and bibliographical information about the Post Office Mauritius stamps and subjects related to them. It is based on my research for the book Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps.

Journal Note

Title
[Missed opportunities]
In
Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly
Imprint
vol. 5, no. 117, 18 March 1899, p. 101
Abstract

'The missed opportunities offered by the waste paper baskets of those who had correspondents in Mauritius some fifty years ago, must make the mouths of the office boys of the present day water,' remarks a worshipper of mammon in a recent issue of the Financial Times.

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