This rare group of five original Portuguese postal cards (“Union Postale Universelle – Portugal / Carte Postale / Bilhete Postal”) features crisp black-and-white photographic portraits of the Portuguese royal family, dated 1905 and 1908—right at the end of Portugal’s monarchy.
What makes your set especially significant is that the 1908 cards include the printed regicide/assassination inscription (typically seen as “Assassinado em 1 de Fevereiro de 1908”) alongside the royal portraits, turning them into powerful memorial pieces from a defining national moment.
The date 1 February 1908 is the day of the Lisbon Regicide, when King D. Carlos I and the Prince Royal D. Luís Filipe were assassinated in Lisbon—an event that profoundly destabilised the monarchy.
Set includes (5 postcards)
Prince Royal D. Luís Filipe — 1 Feb 1908 — with assassination inscription
Prince Royal D. Luís Filipe — 1 Feb 1908 — with assassination inscription
King D. Carlos I (Generalíssimo) — 1 Feb 1908 — with assassination inscription
King D. Carlos I — 1 Feb 1908 — with assassination inscription
King D. Manuel II (aged 15) — 1 Feb 1905
Details
Origin: from a Portuguese solar (manor house) estate
Period: early 20th century (1905–1908)
Size (each): 14 × 9 cm
Weight (each): 0.00386 kg
Total weight (5 cards): 0.0193 kg
A compelling set for collectors of Portuguese history, royal memorabilia, and early photographic ephemera—also beautiful framed as a sober, historically charged gallery wall.
