Bidspirit auction | Postal stationery. Cape Verde. 20-rei

Postal stationery. Cape Verde. 20-rei IP from D. Luis do continente, used in Cape Verde on February 7, 1884. Delivered to the São Vicente post office on July 9, to Germany via Lisbon on July 19, arriving in Ebingen on July 24. The existence of these notes in Cape Verde has two possible explanations: they were for sale in São Vicente, as Elder Correia suggests, or they were sold aboard German ships that, coming from Lisbon, stopped in São Vicente. Very rare.