1d deep red, used with oval bars, clear to good margins, thin spots, scarce (SG £2'500), cert. PF (1994) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 1d dull vermilion, good to huge margins, barred oval cancel, fine (SG £1'400) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d slate-blue, pos.50, with "feather" transfer flaw variety at foot, good to huge margins, neat PAID circular hs, very fine and attractive stamp with deep colour, ex Dale-Lichtenstein & Kanai, cert. BPA (1994) (SG £1'300+) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d blue unused vertical pair, pos.2/8, just touched to close margins on three sides, lower margin large showing characteristic scratch for pos.8, extensively thinned, still a presentable and very rare multiple with only three know pairs recorded by Rudge (listed as no.1 is Rudge's list of unused 2d Dardenne), ex Hind and Dale-Lichtenstein (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d blue pair, pos.61-62, with both stamps showing the "minor retouch" variety, fine to large margins, viod barred oval cancels, a unique pair with only 6 examples known, ex Dale-Lichtenstein & Kanai, cert. BPA (1994) (SG £1'900+) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d blue pair, pos.63-64, with right stamp showing "cut transfer" at lower left corner, good to huge margins, void barred oval cancels, very fine, ex Hind & Caspary, cert. BPA (1998) and Mohrmann (1963) (SG £1'900+) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d blue vertical pair, pos.41/47, with fine to good margins, void barred oval cancels, creasing in between stamps, fine appearance (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d blue, pos.53, used with fine to good margins, neat void barred oval, tiny corner crease, fine (SG £850) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d blue, pos.6, used with fine even margins, neat void barred oval, small thin at top, fine appearance (SG £850) (Image)

1860 (Mar 17) Wrapper to Reunion with 1859 Dardenne vertical pair, pos.2/8, just cut into to fine margins, tied by void barred ovals, endorsed "per Union", reverse with scarce "M & I" boxed hs, crowned GPO despatch and St. Denis arrival, addressee name neatly repaired, fine appearance, ex Ibbotson, signed Roumet cert. Richter (1992) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d pale blue unused, with good to very good margins, light corner crease at lower left, very fine and rare unused example, cert. Sismondo (2007) which states pos.37 but we have not found this stamp's plating features in Rudge's book (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d blue, pos.51, showing partial kiss print with line flaw at foot, large to huge margins, void barred oval cancel, very fine and unusual, ex Kanai, cert. BPA (1994) (SG £850) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d pale blue pair, pos.29-30, with fine to very good margins, neat PAID cancels, two central thins, fine appearance (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d pale blue, pos.72, with large to very large margins and neat barred oval in black, faint trace of a thin under the hinge, fine (SG £850) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d pale blue, pos.73, with good even margins, neat barred oval cancel, small thin, fine, cert. RPS (1988) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 2d pale blue vertical pair, pos.38/44, on cover from Port Louis to France, just tied by barred ovals at right, GPO MAURITIUS MR 8 1860 despatch (last voyage of the vessel "Salsette"), red V. SUEZ French entry, top stamp showing part of papermaker's watermark "I" (clearly visible through the paper of the cover) and highly unusual thus, ex "Saint Louis", cert. BPA (1998) (Image)

1859 Dardenne 1d and 2d group on a fragment of album page from Kanai's introduction (introductory text included on separate fragment), showing the three different shades of both values, a couple with thins, all four margins with decent cancels, the 2d blue showing retouch below "TWO" variety, ex Kanai and "St. Louis" (SG £9'050) (Image)

1859 Dardenne group, all variously repaired, incl. 1d unused cert. Sismondo, four 1d used and three 2d used incl. major retouch to neck variety, useful space-fillers (9) (Image)