Cape Verde - "Cabo Verde" Printed Double

I found this while sorting out my Portuguese stamps for my world wide used collection.

I noticed the "CABO VERDE" seems to be printed double - anyone have a specialist cat that might list this or is this common for this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Drew,

just responded to your email about this, but thought I should share the knowledge ;)

Nothing special about your item on the Afinsa's Portuguese colonies catalog I have. Just the usual listings of paper types, perforations etc. Despite my portuguese skills are hugely limited, I have learned that Afinsa notes (consistent or major) doubled prints & doubled overprints with inscriptions 'impressão dupla' or 'sobrecarga dupla'. Likely yours is too small (and infrequent) variety to be listed.

But that's one very nice EFO. Congrats for the find

all the best,
-k-

Thank you - I still haven't had any luck on finding more info on this oddity. I will keep it aside and maybe one day a similar one will turn up.

Drew

I agree with SCB. I have complete collections of the 1914-1926 Ceres issues for the Portuguese colonies. Off-center value and off-center country name are more common. I haven't seen your Cabo Verde doubled sample, but have a nice copy of Guine being doubled on a Ceres issue (Guine = Portuguese Guinea).

If you can find them, other oddities include a missing value on one side, but the "C." is still there. I've got a fair number of these "oddities" in a comprehensive Angola Ceres collection that I got in the late 1980s, and have since added to. The colonial Ceres issues also are good for shades. There are some forgeries noted by D.J. Davies in his book about forgeries & reprints of Portugal & Colonies. More common forgeries include missing stars for the colonies that have a short name, and stars were added on either side of the name (Guine, India, etc.) to fill out the space.

Probably more information than you wanted. ;-)

Nice to know that these oddities exist! I will keep an eye out for more now. This whole ceres issue will take me some time to go through. I would love to see some scans of these oddities as I am sure the rest of the board would.

Thank you again and I will be sure to post anything else interesting from this series up here.