Lot 40101 – 1866, 100r green, type IV, die III, used on 26.1.1874

1866, 100r green, type IV, die III, on coloured paper, used on 26.1.1874 envelope from Santos to Osnabrück (Germany), insufficiently franked on departure as the correct postage should have been 200 réis according to public notice of 1.3.1867 for mail not subjected to postal conventions, tied by cork type in blue with matching « Correio de Santos » cds at right, carried by British packet and charged « 20 » groschen with blue pencil on arrival, French transit on front, as well as Rio, Paris, Verviers-Cologne and Osnabrück backstamps; a rare underpaid mail to Germany.