Lot 40143 – 1866, 500r orange, in combination with “Barba Branca” 100r (3) on cover to G.B.

1866, 500r orange, in combination with “Barba Branca” 100r single and marginal pair with partial ABN imprint in English at base, used on 19.3.1881 cover to Brockley (Great Britain), tied by large Laguna cds’s with inverted year with a French-type cds at left, both struck in blue, on reverse Santa Catharina, Rio de Janeiro and Brockley cds’s; some soiling, still though a unique mixed franking, made up to pay the fourth rate; ex Dr. de Amaral Machado.