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4 cze 2021 · One of the world’s most celebrated postal history rarities, a cover bearing an 1847 1-penny orange Post Office stamp from the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius (Scott 1), will be offered June 26 by the German auction house of Christoph Gaertner.
The 1847 Mauritius ‘Post Office’ stamps are some of the most renowned and rarest stamps in the world. These stamps were the first colonial stamps in the British Empire. Only twenty-six “Post Office” stamps are known to be surviving, making them rare and valuable.
Key Takeaways: The Mauritius ‘Post Office’ stamps are considered one of the greatest philatelic treasures in the world. They were the first colonial stamps of the British Empire, issued in 1847. Only 27 surviving examples of these stamps are known to exist.
First Mauritius stamps “Post Office” issues: 21 September 1847. In 1847, Mauritius was the first British colony (4th country in the world, after the U.K, Switzerland and the USA) to issue postage stamps, although the first post office was already in operation in Port Louis since 1772.
27 mar 2021 · This humble looking copper plate, which is the original 1847 Mauritius ‘Post Office’ printing plate, sold for 1’300’000’ Euros at auction in 2016. If you want to know why it reached such financial heights, come and take a birds-eye view of the situation.
22 cze 2021 · On 26 June, Christoph Gärtner Auction House will be auctioning one of the world's most famous letters, an invitation letter to Lady Gomm's ball carrying one of the rare Mauritius “Post Office” stamps.
28 mar 2021 · In September 1847 the first stamps of Mauritius were issued bearing the inscription "POST OFFICE” in the left tablet instead of the inscription "POST PAID", widely believed to have been an error by the engraver Joseph Osmond Barnard.
