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Catalogue information
LastDodo number
9411975
Area
Stamps
Title
Britannia
Face value
Country / area
Year
1859
Month
Day
Issue group
Order Number in Issue
5
Basic colour
Exact colour
Usage
Type
Theme / topic
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Michel number
12
Yvert number
14
Scott number
11
Stanley Gibbons number
29
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Perforation
Watermark
Luminescence
Printing technique
Paper
Gum
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
Originally issued as 9 P. in 1859,
reminders were used in the Mauritius
as 1 P.-stamps from 1862 on.
Such stamps are always cancelled
with the B 53 barred cancel.
However this cancel can also be on
stamps used as 9 P.
As prices are more or less equal,
it does not matter too much.