Old Stamps Of Portugal ( Europe ) Part I

The early issues from 1853 had the monarch's head in white embossed on a coloured background.  The first pictorial issue in 1894 commemorated the 500th. anniversary of Henry the Navigator's birth.  Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in 1497 - 1498 was the subject of an 1898 issue.  The 1910 definitives were overprinted Republica after the revolution.  Aeroplanes  were first depicted in 1923 following the Gago Coutinho - Sacadura Cabral flight from Portugal to Brazil in 1922.  In 1924, the first literary issue commemorated the birth of epic poet Luis de Camoes in 1524.  The common Caravel type first appeared in 1943, the Medieval Knight in 1953 and Portugal's first railway stamps in 1956

1.   ISSUED 1866 - 1867 - KING LUIZ

2.   ISSUED 1880 - KING LUIZ

3.   ISSUED 1882 - KING LUIZ

4.   ISSUED 1882 - KING LUIZ

5.   ISSUED 1892 - KING CARLOS

6.   ISSUED 1895 - 1905 - KING CARLOS

7.  ISSUED 1895 - 1905 - KING CARLOS

8.   ISSUED 1895 -1905 - KING CARLOS

9.   ISSUED 1910 - KING MANUEL II

10.   ISSUED 1910 - 1911 - KING MANUEL II  ( FROM A KINGDOM BECAME A REPUBLIC )

11.   ISSUED 1882 - 1887