Rio de Janeiro (BR)

International Reply Coupon JR- Sa. SEC TESORARIA - DF BRASIL Treasury Department issued Rio de Janeiro 1953

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Rio de Janeiro is the second-largest city in Brazil and the sixth-largest city in the Americas by population. It is located on the Atlantic coast in the Southeastern Region of the country.

Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent John VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves. Rio remained as the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822, when the Brazilian War of Independence began. This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonizing country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. Rio de Janeiro subsequently served as the capital of the independent monarchy, the Empire of Brazil, until 1889, and then the capital of a republican Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to Brasília.

Republic (1889- ..)

sorted by date

200 R 1892 (1A S) T

20 R with Expedition 1894

23 SET 1901

International Reply Coupon JR- Sa. SEC TESORARIA - DF BRASIL Treasury Department issued Rio de Janeiro 1953 .

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Commemorative postmark "Series of Brazilian composers" 19 Oct 1993

Empire of Brazil

Bridge in 1886.

Bridge in 1889.

DC 1 JAN 1890 late Pedro head on a stationery envelope |

Meter cancels

Meter cancel Rio de Janeiro 1932

Meter cancel Rio de Janeiro 1948

Cards and Covers

1892 RIO DE JANIERO 2AT (1AS) cancel UPU Postal Card sent to Hamburg

1933 Istres, France to Rio de Janeiro

British Post Office in Rio de Janiero

C38 British Post office cancel Rio de Janeiro 1869 4d Vermilion

The River Plate Branch Packet Service The Last Packet The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company had operated a Trans-Atlantic service from Southampton to the River Plate from 1851 using paddle steamers. The main steamer stopped at Rio de Janeiro and a branch packet took any passengers, cargo or mail on to Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

From 1866 various other shipping companies with screw steamers, began trading with Brazil and the River Plate cities. As the efficency and stature of these companies grew, so did the pressure they exerted on the Post office to be awarded contracts to carry mail. In August 1868 the company of Lamport and Holt were the first to open new lines of contact with Brazil and the River plate. The new improved screw steam ships took the mail and passengers directly to Buenos Aires and Montevideo before starting northwards to Brazil, before returning to Southampton. Thus, those shippers and passengers using this service eliminated the enforced break at Rio de Janeiro. It was now time for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to establish their own through service and end the River Plate branch packet service which had been steaming between Rio and Buenos Aires for 18 years.

The last paddle steamer servicing this route, from October 1865 to October 1869, was the “Arno” which was built by Caird of Greenock in 1865, she was an Iron paddler of 1039 tons and 250 h.p. with dimensions of 262 x 30 x 17 feet.
By the contract of 1863 the branch packet departed Rio on the 8th of the month arriving at Buenos Aires on the 15th. The last sailing of the R.M.S.P.Co. branch packet was 8th October 1869 arriving at Buenos Aires on the 15th October. The packet left on the 27th for Montevideo and then sailed to Rio on the 28th. The “Arno” left Rio on the 5th November for Southampton arriving on the 4th December. “Arno” was taken out of the South American Service from this date but remained part of the R.M.S.P.Co. fleet until 1882. This cover franked by a 4d vermillion plate 11 lettered BG, is cancelled by the “C38” obliterator of Rio de Janeiro with the small cds also on front dated 6th Oct. 1869. The cover is endorsed “por Arno” and was carried on the last sailing of the Branch Packet service from Rio to Buenos Aires. This is definitely a rare and important cover in the history of maritime events in South America despite the poorer cancels.