Mauritius 1991 Indian Ocean Islands Flora & Fauna

Stamps

First Day Cover

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• Issue Date: 13the December1991
• four values
• Designed by: G. L. Vasarhelyi
• Printed by: Walsall Security Printers, England
• Print process: offset lithography
• stamp format height 30mm x width 42mm
• Perforations: 14 x 14
• watermark: multiple CA and crown (spiral) sideways to left seen from back

Islands of the State of Mauritius: Fauna and Flora

40c ~ island of Tromelin: green turtle, Chelonia mydas
Rs1 ~ island of Agalega: glossy ibis (bird), Plegadis falcinellus
Rs2 ~ Salomon Islands, Chagos archipelago: flowers of the Takamaka, Calophyllum inophyllum
Rs15~ island of St Brandon: violet spider conch (shell), Lambis violacea

40c	1r	2r
15r

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