Overprint Help Please

I have a Ruanda-Urundi Sc#13 with a Paquetbot Overprint.
Not mentioned in Scott. Does anyone know the significance of this overprint?

Thanks
Marios

A Paquebot cancel is created when a envelope/package is posted on a mail boat for the first leg to its final destination. Your stamp may or may not have seen service this way. The Paquebot "cancel" and the stamp's neat appearance suggest to me that it was never used that way. Perhaps a number of stamps were precancelled and this was an unused one of them.
Yours ih philately,
George

Hi softpro

It would appear that this stamp was used on cover and sent by sea post mail and received a "Paquebot' marking in the process.

Recently, in this forum, there have been postings under Paquebots. They are a specialty all on their own.

Chimo

Bujutsu

You might want to check this website for more clarification?

It looks quite interesting.

http://mynorthborneostamps.blogspot...arkings.html

Chimo

Bujutsu

The old colony of Ruanda-Urundi (now primarily Burundi) is (was) a landlocked nation, making a Paquebot stamp or cover a real curiosity. The western border lies along the immense Lake Kivu, which no doubt had steamers and cargo vessels, so a genuine Paquebot marking is not out of the question.

Lake Kivu and its natural basin is one of the most hazardous areas in the world, as there are volcanoes and subterranean faults under the lake. Someday they may have a sauna 200 miles long for the area's two million residents.