Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the Worlds Most Valuable Stamps Morgan HelenPaperback
Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the Worlds Most Valuable Stamps Morgan HelenPaperback Follow the adventures of the world's most sought-after postage stamps--from a tropical Indian Ocean island to the…
Specifikacia Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the Worlds Most Valuable Stamps Morgan HelenPaperback
Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the Worlds Most Valuable Stamps Morgan HelenPaperback
Follow the adventures of the world's most sought-after postage stamps--from a tropical Indian Ocean island to the hushed atmosphere of the modern auction room--in this dramatic and passionate tale of the first stamp hunters. No one at the party would have guessed that these stamps would one day be worth more than a million dollars. In September 1847 colored squares of paper were stuck on to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius.
Soldiers, schoolboys, and the entire German nation became obsessed with finding one of these extremely rare examples. When a two-pence "Blue Mauritius" surfaced on the fledgling French stamp-collecting market in 1865 it gained instant celebrity. When in 1903 a perfect specimen, discovered in a childhood album, was bought at auction by the Prince of Wales, the Blue Mauritius gained superstar
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