1943-48, Caravel issues, a specialized collection focusing on postal history, with rates, frankings and usages, airmail, censored, registered, "A.R.", and Postage Dues (2 with U.S. Dues), comprising 1943 issue with 5c to 50e (corner crease), unused, o.g., and 75 covers, cards, wrappers, newsp
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Portugal Franchise Issues Collection, sections for the Red Cross, Rifle Club, Geographical Society, and Aid Society for Consumptives mostly on pages, includes mint and used singles and multiples, covers including single frankings, also includes 1929/35 National Tuberculosis Seals mint plus so
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1853, Queen Maria II, 25r blue (Scott 2), absolutely huge-margined stamp paying the to-the-pier rate on folded address sheet from Setubal (St. Ubes); privately carried to Lisbon (28/9/54 blue receiver at lower left), and then sent "Per Steamer" to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the stamp clea
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1853, Queen Maria II, 50r blue green (Scott 3a), deep bright color, sharp embossing, large margins all round, canceled by "52" barred circle in blue, on 1853 (Oct. 7) folded entire to Lisbon, showing matching "Porto/1853" double-ring datestamp adjacent, Extremely Fine single franking, particu
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1853, Queen Maria II, 100r lilac (Scott 4), single on Oct. 10, 1855 folded letter from Vizeu to Lisboa (10.12); stamp with rich deep color, full to large margins, and canceled by "112" barred circle with matching boxed "10 10/VIZEU/55" alongside; arrival c.d.s. on reverse; slight browning as
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1855, King Pedro V (straight hair), 25r blue, type II (Scott 6), single on June 18, 1855 folded letter from Valadares to Viana [do Castelo]; stamp with rich color and full margins, canceled solely by clean framed VALLADARES keyslot; perfect state of preservation, Very Fine single franking pay
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1855, King Pedro V (straight hair), 25r blue, type II (Scott 6), block of 12, an eye-catching multiple (sufficient postage for 2-7/8 ounces), each stamp cancelled by "74" Santo Tirso numeral cancel; color and paper fresh; wrinkle across bottom row, a few spots of breakage around frame at posi
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1856, King Pedro V (curled hair), 5r brown (Scott 9), top margin vertical strip of five in rich chestnut shade with full margins except bottom stamp nicked at lower right, canceled by five strikes "1" 15-barred circle on Dec. 15, 1856 part wrapper from Lisboa to Paris; December 20 transit mar
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1856-58, King Pedro V (curled hair), 5r brown & 25r rose (Scott 9, 11), strip of three 5r (bright chestnut shade) plus single 25r on Aug. 24, 1859 blue folded letter from Alfred Lord Tennyson at Sintra to his wife in Kent, England; stamps canceled by four strikes "24" 11-barred circle;
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1858, King Pedro V (curled hair), 25r rose, private zig-zag rouletting (Scott 11 var.), used as a seal across the flap of a blue folded address sheet sent from Lisbon to Porto; address side with Lisboa 20/5/62 postmark and "1" in circular grid postmark, the stamp on reverse tied by numeral gr
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1862, King Luiz, 10r orange (Scott 13), four bright golden yellow singles on Mar. 28, 1866 blue folded letter from Lisboa to London; stamps with close margins, canceled by four strikes "1" dotted circle with double-circle Lisboa datestamp alongside; endorsed "Via France", London arrival April
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1862, King Luiz, 10r orange & 50r yellow green (Scott 13, 15), two 10r singles and a 50r single, all with bright fresh colors and large to enormous margins, canceled by "1" in circular rhomboid of dots, on May 2, 1866 folded letter from Lisbon to Madrid (55), arrival c.d.s. on reverse; addres
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1914, "Republica" overprint in sans-serif letters in red on 1905 50r on 65r dull blue (Scott 72), rich color, centered to lower left, unused with much original gum, lightly aged on reverse just affecting a few perfs., nevertheless a Fine to Very Fine example of one of the great rarities of th
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