M. De Costa Andrade & Co.
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Type 22

I would like to show you an example of this underprint on a stamp but, as yet, I have been unable to locate one.

This underprint is from the firm Moses de Costa Andrade & Co.

They were Ostrich Feather Merchants and Manufacturers trading at one point from:

    London E.C.

 while in 1865 they were at:

    61 & 62 Wood Street & 63 Milton Street
   
London E.C.

 

1868. Unofficial underprint type 22 (over the gum) in black.

Vertical underprint, reading upwards

PP64 1d lake-red (SG 43 or G1)
Plates 112 and 116