Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable StampsThe dramatic tale of the world? s most sought after stamp and the passionate story of the first stamp hunters In September 1847, Mauritius? s very first stamps were produced to send out admission cards to a costume ball. No one at the party would have guessed that the envelopes bearing these stamps would one day be worth more than a million dollars each. When a two pence ? Blue Mauritius? surfaced on the fledgling French stamp collecting market in