Funchal
Post Cards - Carte Postale and Bilhete Postal
![Carte Postale](funchal1a.jpg)
U.P.U. Postcard (Carte Postale in French) with the design
of the first King Carlos definitive issue of 1892-1893.
![Domestic Rate Postcard](funchal1b.jpg)
Domestic Rate Postcard (valid in Portugal and Spain - Bilhete Postal in Portugese)
with the design of the second King Carlos definitive issue of 1897-1905.
Funchal is the capital city and an administrative unit in the Madiera Island group of the Azores. It issued it own stamps from 1892 - 1905 but stamps of Madiera and Portugal have also been used.
![map](funchal1c.jpg)
Funchal is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco.
Bibliography
"Funchal." Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. 1997.
Rossiter, Stuart and John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald and Co., 1986.
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