Mauritius : On Steiner Pages.

One must be slightly loony, in the good-natured stamp-collector sort of way, to attempt this country yet I have taken up the oar.

Page 1, likely to remain mostly blank for my lifetime.


Page 2, better filled.

Those probably never-to-be-filled spaces in your Mauritius collection remind me of a couple of pages in my Great Britain album, particularly in the Official overprint section, quite a few of those overprints catalogue in the tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars (or pounds. I currently own probably all of the ones I will ever be able to afford. Equally conspicuous by its absence because there's just an empty space (and likely to remain so)is the ultra rare 1873 line engraved sixpence buff, plate 13 which lists at 25,000 pounds in Stanley Gibbons and an ever so slightly more affordable $25,000 in Scott.

Beautiful stuff !
You know, I have seen so may pages, partly filled, I have become to like them, it's the truth on show, nothing wrong with a few blanks, makes you focus even more on the mounted.
Keep it Up

Tip: If you can manage to crop your images to the Steiner Frame, even better, the frame to the bottom of the last spaces, it would enhance the viewing, and bring the stamps even closer to us.

Nice. You can easily add one more stamp to your first page. The red-brown Britannia stamp (SG 30, Scott 7) has a SG price of £27 ($34).

This stamp and the blue stamp under the title 1849-1858 are confusingly labelled 1849-1858 by Scott and hence Steiner. The red-brown, green and vermillion (red in Scott) colours were printed in 1848 and arrived in Mauritius in 1849 but were not initially issued. The green and vermillion were issued in 1858. The red-brown and a blue stamp received in 1858 were never issued and were eventually sold as 'remainders'. They would be better placed in the Scott catalogue after the 1958/59 issued stamps as per Stanley Gibbons and should not include a date.

Michael

Thanks for the tips. Page 3 as it stands. I haven't focused on this one much.

Page 4

Page 5. The four 1883 surcharges are my latest acquisition.

Very nice. Thanks for showing them.

Nice stamps!

New Pmk discovery?
Any members have "proud" catalogue ?
Sc#108 1895 15c coa.
Postmark : VACOAS "Blank" 20mm CDS, with code at top B

An aside : Britain's smallest CDS, is Manchester 1896, coming in at a miserly 15mm.

Forgeries.



A lovely Lass, in real Philatelic Fashion......

Revenues:
FYI Mauritius Overprinted and surcharged, Used in Seychelles. (Unlisted Barefoot)
Owner : filipo.



Barefoot 21 1869 8 shillings and fourpence,
These stamps issued in strips of 3.
CV for FIRST or SECOND as listed, THIRD = 50% premium
Wmk Crown CC sideways.

Unknown Catalogue.
Mutilated Stationery Fragment : Postcard
ca 1904 6c on 3c surcharge Carmine.

Nice space filler, for my collection, happy to have it, but very hard to pick up in a poor scan of Hagner stamps.
Repaired by the Acme dodgy stamp repair company.
Decent stamp catalogues at $160 / $50
Sc#29 1860

Off the shelf.

Auxilliary Markings : EATEN BY RAT.

1882 Steiner Page 5.
Curious about the previous page Pmk 21?