This is a faulty example of SG 18, the 1848-59 Mauritius "Post Paid" one penny red on bluish paper, worn impression.  It has defects and repairs, so it would make a good plating copy or low-cost spacefiller until you can afford a better example.  From position 9 on the plate of 12, with square-nosed P and E with missing middle bar, both in POSTAGE.

The stamp has good colour, but a heavy target postmark.  There is a vertical repaired cut or tear on the left side, and a thin in the middle of the top edge, both reinforced with hinge paper.  I suspect there is also a tiny repaired vertical tear in the middle of the bottom border.

Provenance : ex David Tarry, who among other awards won an international gold medal at the 2002 Amphilex show for his Mauritius exhibition.

The Gibbons catalogue price is £900.

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