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Beech, David R. "The Printing Plate of the Mauritius 1847 Post Office Issue" in The London Philatelist, Vol. 121, No. 1392, Jan/Feb 2012, pp. 2–9.; Hiroyuki Kanai, Classic Mauritius, Stanley Gibbons, London (1981) ISBN 0-85259-251-5—an illustrated work on the author's famous Mauritius collection, including photos of reconstructed plates, postmarks and postal history.
Mauritius Post is today the company responsible for the postal service in Mauritius. The first informal mail delivery service to Mauritius from France under the direction of the French Crown appears to have been around the 1770s by Pierre Nicolas Lambert, the King’s Printer. See also. Blue Penny Museum; Mauritius "Post Office"
The "Post Office" stamps. On September 21, 1847, Mauritius issued two stamps, an orange-red one penny (1d) and a deep blue two pence (2d). [5] The words "Post Office" appear in the left panel, but were changed to "Post Paid" in the following issue, and are the source of the stamps' common name. The "Post Office" stamps are among the rarest ...
It was a replacement for the previous General Post Office then located in Government Street near Government House, where the post office had been headquartered since 1847. Since 21 December 1870, this became the main post office of Mauritius and in April 1877, the Central Telegraph Office also moved into the building.
MauBank is a bank headquartered in Ebene CyberCity, Mauritius. It is licensed as a commercial bank by the Bank of Mauritius, the country's central bank and the nation's banking regulator. MauBank is the third largest bank in Mauritius. [1] [2] It offers a full range of financial services to private and corporate clients, wealthy individuals ...
The Government of Mauritius ( French: Gouvernement de Maurice) is the main authority of the executive power in the Republic of Mauritius. The head of the Government is the Prime Minister of Mauritius, who manages the main agenda of the Government and direct the ministers. The 2015 Ibrahim Index of African Governance ranked Mauritius first in ...
Since independence in 1968, Mauritius has developed from a low-income, agriculturally based economy to an upper-middle income [2] diversified economy with growing industrial, financial, ICT and tourist sectors. For most of the period, annual growth has been roughly 4%. This compares very favorably with other sub-Saharan African countries and is ...
The postcode is added after the name of the town or village, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. John Ferguson. 21, Old Trafford Road. Mission Cross. Lalmatie 42602. MAURITIUS. The first digit of the code indicates the District Code in this case Flacq District, the second and third digits indicate Village Council Area Code for the town of Lalmatie, while ...