Bidspirit auction | Postal History. CAPE VERDE. 1856.

Postal History. CAPE VERDE. 1856. Letter written in Philadelphia on 18.2.1856, sent to England by steamer, paid 65 cents, from where it was sent on 3.3. by the English packet to S. Vicente, and from there to Porto Praia in S. Tiago. It has no mark of C. Verde's postage, and the postage from England to C. Verde was paid in London. MB and MR. Intended for the surgeon on board the anti-slavery patrol vessel, based in Cape Verde.