Lot 40025 – 1866, 10r vermilion, uncancelled and correctly paying a newspaper to Portugal

1866, 10r vermilion, uncancelled and correctly paying the printed matter rate to Portugal on 31.1.1873 “O Commercial” newspaper from Rio Grande do Sul to Figueira (Portugal), with adjacent “20” réis tax marking to be paid by the addressee and corresponding to the first rate with carriage of subsidised packets.

Note: Most of the newspapers in existence sent to Portugal were the “Revista Commercial da Praça da Bahia”, but these have no text on their reverse side and consequently this does not enable them to be folded towards the interior. In that manner those newspapers externally display the side without text, where the franking was applied, and therefore do not clearly show to be newspapers. This lot, distinctly exhibiting the usage of a newspaper per transatlantic mail, is extremely rare thus.