Thursday, 4 June 2015

Old Stamps Of Portugal ( Europe ) Part III

1.   OVERPRINTED STAMPS OF 1898 - ISSUED AFTER 1910 WHEN PORTUGAL BECAME A REPUBLIC

2.    1931 - 1938 SERIES

3.   1931 - 1938 SERIES

4.    1931 - 1938 SERIES

5.  1931 - 1938 SERIES

6.   1931 - 1938 SERIES

7.    1943 - 1949 SERIES

8.   1943 - 1949 SERIES

9.   1943 - 1949 SERIES

10.   1943 - 1949 SERIES

11.  1943 - 1949 SERIES

12.  1953 - 1956 SERIES

13.   1953 - 1956 SERIES

14.  1953 - 1956 SERIES

15.  1953 - 1956 SERIES

16.  1953 - 1956 SERIES

17.   1953 - 1956 SERIES

18.   1953 - 1956 SERIES

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Old Stamps Of Portugal ( Europe ) Part II

1.   ISSUED 1898 - THE VOYAGE OF VASCO DE GAMA TO INDIA

2.   ISSUED 1898 - THE VOYAGE OF VASCO DE GAMA TO INDIA

3.   ISSUED 1898 - THE VOYAGE OF VASCO DE GAMA TO INDIA

4.   ISSUED 1898 - THE VOYAGE OF VASCO DE GAMA TO INDIA

5.   DEFINITIVES -  1912 - 1931  SERIES ( CERES STAMPS FEATURING KING MANUEL II )

6.  ISSUED BETWEEN 1912 - 1931

7.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

8.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

9.  ISSUED 1912 - 1931

10.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

11.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

12.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

13.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

14.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

15.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

16.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

17.    ISSUED 1912 - 1931

18.  ISSUED 1921 -1931

19.   ISSUED 1912 - 1931

20.  ISSUED 1912 - 1931

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



Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Old Stamps Of Ireland ( Europe )

Not much can be said about Irish stamps due to the fact that Ireland was part of Great Britain until its independence in 1922 which saw the Irish government issued as an interm  measure overprinted stamps of King George V .  Dolland printing house in Dublin and others did this overprint work between February and December 1922.  Definitive postage stamps of Ireland are the regular series of definitive postage stamps issued by the Irish Free State between 1922 - 1937 and by the Republic of Ireland since 1937.  Seven distinctly different series of designs have been released and the currency was changed on three occasions while the design remained the same.


1.   ISSUED 1922 - OVERPRINTED STAMPS OF KING GEORGE V OF ENGLAND

2.   IRISH FREE STATE FIRST DEFINITIVES - 1922 - MAP OF  IRELAND

3. SWORD OF LIGHT - EARLY DEFINITIVES

4.  ARMS OF THE PROVINCES - EARLY DEFINITIVES

5.   CELTIC CROSS - EARLY DEFINITIVES

6.  ISSUED 1929 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

7.  ISSUED 1931 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

8.  ISSUED 1934 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

9.  ISSUED 1934 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

10. IRISH FREE STATE

11.  ISSUED 1930 ( IRISH FREE STATE )

12.   ISSUED 1938 ( REPUBLIC OF IRELAND )

13.   ISSUED1939 ( REPUBLIC OF IRELAND )

14.   REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

15.  IRISH WILD FLOWER DEFINITIVES II