The George Pearson Literature Prize is awarded to the article that PPS members enjoyed the most in the preceding year’s bulletins . If you are a PPS member, you may use the form below to send your vote directly to the Secretary. Voting closes on 28th February. The prize will be presented at the AGM in March.
Here are some photos, courtesy of Isabel Vieira, of some of the PPS members attending the National Philatelic Exhibition. The Secretary’s report about the event will appear in the next bulletin.
Isabel Vieira read in a Portuguese newspaper that a Portuguese stamp won an Asiago International Award for Philatelic Art this year.
I couldn’t find an official site, not even in Italian, but stumbled upon an article in Linn’s Stamp News with full information on the 44th Asiago Awards, considered the “Oscars” of stamp design. The Portuguese stamp, above, by João Machado, and part of the 2013 International Year of Statistics set, won the tourism category. Confusingly, all Portuguese blogs and newspapers I found, probably citing the same source, say the award went to the €0.36 stamp, which in my view makes even less sense to be considered a tourism stamp.
The designer had already won three Asiago awards, in 2005 (tourism), 2007 (environment category) and 2010 (tourism). Portugal also won (ex aequo with Switzerland) the tourism category in 2011, with the funicular stamps by Eduardo Aires. CTT sources say that another Asiago award (tourism category again?) was won in 1977 with a Europa stamp.
If you have further information, please leave a comment below.
The October bulletin’s content is:
The following article has come to the attention of our President:
Andrew Fischer, Airmail Rates of Portuguese East Africa, Asia Pacific Exhibitor, vol. 28 no. 1, pp. 61-67, May 2014.
Members can obtain a copy from our Librarian. John Cross mentioned another article, with more extensive information:
Altino Silva Pinto and Giorgio Micali, O início da VIA AÉREA e as respectivas tabelas de porte, Boletim do Clube Filatélico de Portugal no. 424, pp. 55-66, June 2009.
The July bulletin’s content is:
The April bulletin’s content is:
Dr Hans Bjelkhagen mentioned to us his book “Holography and Philately“, which includes a Portuguese stamp:
“To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the first Portuguese stamp, Portugal issued a souvenir sheet on September 23, 2003 (No. 175) and also to commemorate Francisco de Borja Freire (1790-1869), the designer and engraver of the first Portuguese stamp issued in 1853. Four different souvenir sheets were issued of which one is a stamp with a hologram. The long stamp with the hologram on the souvenir sheet depicts Queen D. Maria II with the Portuguese Mint building in the background. Both Francisco de Borja Freire’s signature and the master tool (a 25 reis coin with the Queen’s profile) for embossing the first stamp are also featured on the sheet. The hologram stripe across the stamp within the souvenir sheet has six CTT Portuguese Post Authority Emblems, with the one on the left side being the first one used and the one on the right side the current symbol. […] The hologram was produced by INETI in Portugal in cooperation with IMPRENSA NACIONAL CASA DA MOEDA (INCM) – the Portuguese National Press and Mint which printed all four souvenir sheets.”
Some photos (courtesy of Isabel, Armando and Bento) from the recent Annual General Meeting, which took place 21-23 March in Leamington Spa.
Welcome to the new PPS website, re-built and re-styled from scratch! I thank the previous Webmaster, João Paulo Cota, and the Treasurer, Francis Rodrigues, for their assistance in the handover process.
Being a British society related to Portugal, I chose a look based on the common colours of the Union Jack and the Portuguese flag: red, blue and white.
Over time, I will copy over the content of the old website and edit it to fit the new blog format, to remove old dead links, to make use of the features (like image galleries) of the new platform used (WordPress), etc. I will keep attribution of the past entries to the previous Webmaster.
If you spot any mistakes or omissions in any entry, please leave a comment in that entry. Note that your first comment will be moderated, to prevent spam. For comments or suggestions regarding the website in general, please contact me directly.
I hope you enjoy the new site and look forward to your contributions.
