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Funchal

Post Cards - Carte Postale and Bilhete Postal

Carte Postale
U.P.U. Postcard (Carte Postale in French) with the design
of the first King Carlos definitive issue of 1892-1893.

Domestic Rate Postcard
Domestic Rate Postcard (valid in Portugal and Spain - Bilhete Postal in Portugese)
with the design of the second King Carlos definitive issue of 1897-1905.

Funchal is the capital city and an administrative unit in the Madiera Island group of the Azores. It issued it own stamps from 1892 - 1905 but stamps of Madiera and Portugal have also been used.

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Funchal is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco.


Bibliography

"Funchal." Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. 1997.

Rossiter, Stuart and John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald and Co., 1986.


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