07 Feb

Auction 2015

Our auctioneer, Roger Lawson, has put together the catalogue of this year’s auction. The auction will take place on March 7th, after the AGM. If you can’t attend, you may submit your bids (in British pounds) via the form below, which will be e-mailed to Roger. The form will be was removed on March 3rd.

Only PPS members can bid for lots, but there’s still time to become a member.

In the slideshows below, leave your mouse cursor on the centre of the slideshow to see the lot number corresponding to each image. To see an image in larger resolution, pause the slideshow at that image, then right-click and choose the option to open the image in a new browser tab or save it to your disk.

Portugal

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Madeira and Azores

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Angola

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Congo, Cape Verde, Guinea

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India and Macao

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Mozambique et al.

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São Tomé and Timor

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Other

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31 Jan

Vianna 2014 awards

Congratulations to our members Luís Barreiros, Bento Dias, Luís Frazão, Claudino Pereira, Manuel Lima Torres, and Isabel Vieira, for winning 4 Large Gold, 5 Gold and 6 Silver-gilt awards at the last National Philatelic Exhibition! The exhibits’ themes included the pre-stamp period, classic issues, maritime mail, Mozambique railway mail, Portuguese India, and WW I. The detailed list of the exhibits and awards is in this month’s bulletin.

19 Oct

Airmail rates

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.