Bidspirit auction | Mozambique Company * 1935/40 –

Mozambique Company * 1935/40 – Local motifs + Airmail * Inauguration of airmail, rectangular format + postal tax * Public Assistance. New type. Cover sent, by air from Beira (26.12.39) to Peniche (09.01.40) with transit through Lisbon (09.01.40) with stamps of 1E, dark blue and black and 2E, light lilac and black, to pay the first rate surcharge of a letter to Portugal weighing up to 5g according to the rates table published in the Lourenço Marques Yearbook of 1939 + stamp of 2c, blue and black, dotted paper, perforation 11, MF IP3, to pay the postal tax due in the period. This letter proves that these stamps entered circulation in 1939 and not in 1939 as referenced in the Mundifil catalog. MB and MR.