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 Article

Author
Bishop, Percy C.
Title
The Great Colour Question: Why Philatelists Cannot Call a Spade a Spade and a Red a Red
In
Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly
Imprint
vol. 6, no. 135, 12 May 1900, p. 35
Abstract

'Why is it,' Mr Bishop asks, 'that colour as applied to postage stamps has never been successfully measured, classified, or standardised?' Oh for a 'slightly saddened orange-brown and joyful salmon pink'!

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