MAURITIUS - boxed "R" (bulbous top, straight leg) postal history QV 2c Inland Post Card to Port Louis with adhesive pmk'd "B53" B/JY 12 79 duplex, reverse with pristine early strike of the black boxed "R" showing traces of the outer circular rim (see Ibbotson page 117). £325
MAURITIUS - boxed "R" (narrow top, dancing leg) postal history Text headed "Rose Belle 23 October 91" on QV 2c Post Card to Port Louis with design pmk'd "B53" duplex dated OC 23 91, alongside superb strike black boxed "R" (see Ibbotson Page 117). £250
MAURITIUS postal history 1880 cover to France with QV 17c tied A/SP 10 80 duplex, various French markings, reverse IRELAND. FRASER & Co. cachet. £80
MAURITIUS with chisel slits to REUNION 1862 wrapper marked p. Str. "Ottawa" to Reunion with QV 4d pmk'd A/AU 20 63 "B53" duplex with top flap displaying St. Denis 22 Aout 1862 arrival, two diagonal chisel slits struck into address panel. £425
15 used UNION-VALE, Mauritius postal history (Ex George R. WREN) 1880 use of QV 2c Post Card to Port Louis with design pmk'd "15" with UNION-VALE A/JU 1 80 cds alongside. Ex George R WREN (1963).
£90
MAURITIUS postal history 1868 cover with blue GALDEMAR FRERES, PORT LOUIS sender's cachet marked "per Mozambique" to G. Lafaye & Cie, Bordeaux, France with QV 4d rose, QV 1/- orange pmk'd "B53" with fine clear Mauritius A/MR 18 68 despatch cds alongside arrivals which can fully display. £185
A.O. (autres objets), Mauritius postal history purple circled alongside address panel to St. Lucia with QE2 5c,15c,50c pmk'd Quatre Bornes 15 NO 65, reverse without backstamps but ink marked ""Rec'd 20/11/65". Post Office introduced a second class mail for non-urgent matter at half the usual airmail rate £60
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius postal history to Antigua KGV 12c PSRE with added 2 x 3c green (one reverse) pmk'd Port Louis 6 MR 20 marked 'per S.S. Haubgate' addressed Antigua. £48
MAURITIUS postal history: (T.3) scarce CALEBASSES B/MY 24 9 (9 for 99) tying 1899 15c on 36c (SG.135, earlier date than MY 28 99 as listed by SG) on local tone-speckled cover to Vallombreuse, Calebasses. £120