Two Pence Blue Stamp For Sale
The Two Pence Blue are one of the rarest stamps in the world, the `Post Office Mauritius Two Pence Blue’, belonging to the collection of Sir Humphrey Cripps, will be auctioned soon in Great Britain. The whole of the stamp collection estimated at € 20 million consists of 80 albums.
Post Office of Mauritius’s Two Pence Blue, one of the most famous stamps and most expensive is worth more than € 500.000, indicates the online news `The Telegraph’ in its edition of Tuesday. This sale, which will be made in several times and this until 2012, lets think that prices record will be reached, considering the quality and the prestigious sources of these stamps. The collection was completely collected by Sir Cyril Humphrey Cripps.
Mauritius emitted two stamps the `One Penny’ of red and orange color and the `Two Pence Blue’. The two postage stamps were engraved and printed in Port-Louis by Joseph Osmond Barnard. On the whole, 500 specimens of the `One Penny’ and 500 of the `Two Pence Blue’ were printed. To date, only 15 `One Penny’, including two which was not used and 12 `Two Pence Blue’, including four not used, always exist. Two specimens not used of the `Two Pence Blue’ are exposed at the Blue Penny Museum in Port-Louis.
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