Rule #5 of Collecting: Spelling and grammar count, especially when Rules #1 - 4 apply.
Their value is due to two factors — they were the first stamps of the British Empire to be produced outside the United Kingdom and in their initial issue were printed with the wrong wording. They are therefore even rarer than they would have been had they been printed correctly.
Source: Blue Penny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, it's Postage Paid Postage, not Post Office Postage....
Mauritius is apparently a popular country for philately.
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