CONTENTS: Societies, Online forums, Biography (links) (Books) (Magazines and articles), Online delaers offering philatelic books
If you know of anything I can add to these lists, please let me know.
SOCIETIES
Online forums
BIOGRAPHY (Links)
- On some aspects of Mauritian Philately I recommend from the past for Interesting old letters. Also details of WWII Civil Censorship, and comprehensive lists of Commercial meter marks and Designated registration numbers.
- Official site of Mauritius Post Look under "tools" for a Post Office Locator,
also check "history" and "news".
- Mauritius Postal Museum Photographs of stamp cancelling devices, postal equipment etc.
- Stamps of Mauritius web site is no longer online, its content can however be accessed though the Internet Archive's "wayback machine"...here useful for a display of FDC's from 1968 to 2005,
note also the interesting errors and examples on the "click here" at the bottom of each page.
- Report (in Italian) of a visit and the stamps of Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agalega
- King George V Silver Jubilee - Mauritius Perfins
- ICT Authority tender CAP2/phase1/2004-5 Contains a list of post offices (incomplete),
but includes their addresses
- UPU Specimen Postal Stationery -- Mauritius
- Mauritis Local & Rural Posts 1840-1890 by Dave Tarry
- Postal History (all countries) links to postal history sites, societies, dealers, literature etc.
BIOGRAPHY (Books)
- The Stamps of Mauritius by Christian le Comte. 80 pages. Published 2006.
- Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Stamps by Helen Morgan. 320 pages. Published 2006.
- Madame Joseph Revisited by Brian Cartwright. 96 pages, in color, hardback with dj, ring binder with 40 transparent overlays in slip case. Published 2005
- The Postal History of Mauritius by Edward B. Proud. 448 pages. Covers the period from 1810 to Independence in 1968. Published 2001. ISBN 1 872465 323
- Potal History & Stamps of Mauritius by P. Ibbotson. (Revisions & Additions) 117 pages. Published 1995. Indian Ocean Study Circle. (available)
- Madame Joseph Forged Postmarks by Derek Worboys, edited by Roger B. West. 122 pages. Published 1994.
- Potal History & Stamps of Mauritius by P. Ibbotson. Published 1991. Indian Ocean Study Circle. (Out of print, rarely offered secondhand)
- Mauritius, Picture Postcards 1901-1955 by A. de Kervern. 72 pages. English & French, with rarity guide. Published 1991. Indian Ocean Study Circle.
- The “Post Office Mauritius” and its legend. by Alfred S. De Pitray. Published Rose Hill : Editions de l’Océan Indien, c. 1990.
- Maritime Mails 1815-1868 by J. W. B. Ruffle. 100 pages. Published 1987. (out of print)
- Mauritius, Accountancy & To Pay Marks 1860-1876 by J. W. B. Ruffle. 38 pages. Published 1985. Indian Ocean Study Circle.
- The B53 Obliterators of Mauritius by Ken Baker. Published Harry Hayes, Bradford, UK, 1976 ISBN 0 9052220 9 1
- POST OFFICE MAURITIUS - 1847 The Tale of Two Stamps by Michael Harrison. 52 pages. Published 1947.
Printed on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the famous "Blue and Red MAURITIUS"
and tells the story of the few surviving stamps of this issue known.
It contains a little sheet with two reprints of the famous stamps.
- Mrs. M. S. Pierce, "Mauritius: Postmarks", Billig’s Philatelic Handbook, Volume VI, pages 88-91. Published 1946.
BIOGRAPHY (Magazines and articles)
- Forgery of the 1861 9d brown embossed envelope by Alan Huggins,in Fakes Forgeries Experts Journal #2, 1999.
- Mauritius-the 1925 Local Surcharges by Peter Ibbotson, Gibbons Stamp Monthly, January 1995.
- The Mauritius Primitives by Arnold J.B. Rudge, The London Philatelist, Vol. 102/36,57 (1993)
- The Barnard Myth by Peter Ibbotson, Stamp Collecting, vol 123 p 527, 7 November 1974 and p 1087, 30 January 1975
- ‘Mauritius Travelling Boxes’ by Peter Ibbotson, Stamp Collecting, June 17th, 1971 pp745 & 747
- Mauritius-The Story of the Air Mail Service by Peter Ibbotson, The Stamp Lover, Vol. 62, No. 4, July-August 1970.
Online delaers offering philatelic books