Bidspirit auction | Quelimane / Lourenço Marques *

Quelimane / Lourenço Marques * 1913/14 – 4th Centenary of the Discovery of the Sea Route to India with surcharge “REPUBLICA” and surcharge, on stamps from Africa, Quelimane issue + Ceres, Lourenço Marques issue. Cover sent from Quelimane (September 26, 2018) to Geneva (December 27, 2018) with transit through Beira (September 30, 2018) with stamps of 7 ½ cs/75 réis, brown, MF6 and stamp of 1c, dark green, dotted paper, perforated 15x14, MF119c, totaling 8 ½ c, to pay the first rate of a letter abroad weighing up to 15g (7 ½ c) and excess rate (1c), according to the rates table of Service Order 49 of February 4, 2018. Doubly censored with a band by the French censorship and with a double circle stamp in violet “PASSED THROUGH / CENSORSHIP / BEIRA” type AP 2.1.13. MB and R.