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.

Review Note

Author
Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic
Title
Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps
In
FT Magazine [Financial Times]
Description of Work
review of Morgan, Helen, Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps (2006)
Imprint
23-24 September 2006
Abstract

Why did the first stamps printed in Mauritius carry the words "Post Office" rather than the usual "Post Paid"? It is a philatelic mystery, and those of us immune to the joys of stamp collecting may be content for it to remain that way. But Helen Morgan's enthusiasm for these stamps - the "most coveted scraps of paper in existence", she writes in the Blue Mauritius - is catching, and their transformation into rarities with a price tag of more than $1m is not without interest… The subtext of Morgan's book is the allure of scarcity in an age of mass production.

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