ISSUE 187 - July 3, 2026 - Stamp News Online Magazine
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The Island of Mauritius
by Max Sage
(From STAMPS Magazine, July 11, 1941, with images added)
Mauritius, philatelically famous for her “POST OFFICE” issue, is a British Island Colony lying in the Indian Ocean [off the southeast coast of Africa] some 550 miles east of the Island of Madagascar. The Island was first discovered by the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century and later settled by the Dutch, who finally abandoned it in 1710. The French next took possession of the island, giving it the name of Ile de France. In 1810 the British gained control, the island being formally . . .
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