Maybe you can post the stamp (or cover) where you saw this? Specifically, from what country? It looks like a relatively common cork cancel, but the angles of the opposing triangles is a bit unique.
No, there's another postmark on the same stamp on which you can clearly see the date 1844… I'll try to get an authorization to post the image of the stamp.
This circular postmark is the most common in this type of stamp, widely known, and doesn't have this mute part. They are certainly two different cancellations…
Too small to be a cork cancel IMHO. Not positioned right to be part of the CDS cancels. I do see a pen cancel, maybe the rest were added later and the pen is the genuine?
My best guess is that the letter came out of the interior of Brazil, with the stamp canceled only to the pen. It passed through the capital (Rio de Janeiro), where it received the circular postmark and went to some foreign country, where it received this mute cancellation, because in Brazil they were not yet used at that time. It remains to be seen where it could be from...
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