COVER N. 519 - BRASIL

Postmark: ACC Beira Mar Shopping Florianópolis - SC 19.09.2024 

Posted on the 19th September; Received on the 3rd October 2024

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I love the stamps on this Portuguese speaking cover. O meu muito obrigado, Lucia; os selos são lindos e uma boa forma de lembrar os laços inquebrantáveis que unem os nossos dois países.

Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral will be forever remebered for several achievements,  in the field of aviation and geography, the most famous of them all being the courageous first South Atlantic aerial crossing operated in the East to West direction, in 1922.

I've talked about this crossing and the stamps celebrating its centenary in the post pertaining to cover #172, so I'll just refer that the two 2.35 reais stamps illustrated with the image of the Fairey IIID (of which three were needed to complete the flight), the portrait of the aviators  and the Portuguese "Cross of Christ", to this day the insignia of  both the Helicopter Squadron of the Portuguese Navy and of the Portuguese  Air Force, are part of a se-tenant set of three, issued on 01AUG2022.

The remaining two stamps are part of the definitive sets, issued between 2005 and 2011, dedicated to Professions. The shoemaker, (0,20 R$) is part of the first set of three stamps issued on 30DEC2005, while the Manicurist, (1 RS) belonged to the second set, comprising two stamps, issued on 06NOV2006.

The Postmark indicates that the letter was mailed from a post office installed in a shopping mall - Beira Mar Shopping - in the city of Florianópolis, the Capital city of the State of Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil.