A Portuguese Stamp in the Movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

In the movie "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" with Gary Oldman there are a passage in which we can clearly see a postcard with a stamp Portuguese ... but the postmark is incomplete...

My Personalized Stamp

My Personalized Stamp - Tiles from Caneças where I was born.

Germany - 50th Anniversary of Universal Women's Suffrage

Souvenir-sheet from Germany - 50th Anniversary of Universal Women's Suffrage 1969

Portugal - European Football Championship

The history of the Matraquilhos (table football game) begins and ends in the collective imagination of popular confrontation. In this
universe, we can all be talented football players, score memorable goals or make great saves. The traditional wooden table is reinvented and transformed into a stadium of crowds who live the moment of the goal, the challenge of getting further ahead, the confrontation between long-rivalled teams. For all these reasons, this game, which has since its origins brought together large numbers of supporters and football lovers, was the chosen one, for an issue of stamps, to depict the Portuguese national team and praise its clearance for the European Football Championship which this year takes place in Poland and Ukraine.
In this new concept, the green and red are no longer the colours of two teams playing on opposing sides, but the colours of one team that, represented by the same flag and with the Cross of Christ on the chest, promises to achieve great victories.
CTT – Correios de Portugal joins all the supporters who, hunched over a Matraquilhos table or glued to the television screen, with a scarf around the neck and a hand on the chest, cheer for a remarkable performance by the Portuguese team." in ctt.pt

Emissão / issue
2012 / 06 /04
Selo / stamp
€0,68 – 185 000

Souvenir Sheet Madeira Island Quintas

Souvenir Sheet Madeira Island Quintas
Stamps 2011

The word and the Image

 

Souvenir-Sheet The Word and the Image - Pentecostes

Stamps 2012

Major Characters of Portuguese History and Culture

Major Characters of Portuguese History and Culture Brito Camacho (1862 – 1934) Journalist by calling and politician by conviction, Manuel de Brito Camacho, minister for public works of the provisional government of the 1st Republic, was born in Monte de Mesas, on 12 February 1862, and went to high school in Beja, before enrolling in a Medicine course, at the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica, in Lisbon. In 1885 he began attending the Republican Party congresses and in 1906 he founded the A Lucta periodical, the first propaganda tool of the Republic. His sharp and incisive pen, which places public wellbeing above the private and does not shy away from party interests, creates some enemies, on the left and the right of the political spectrum. His tenacity, his rigour and an immaculate political patriotism, however, make him a tutelary figure of the Republican Union Party, which he establishes in 1911. Between the years of 1921 and 1923 he takes on the role of High Commissioner of the Republic, in Mozambique. In this capacity he is responsible for important reforms in the education and health systems of the former colony. Once he retired from political life, Brito Camacho celebrates his homeland in part of the literary work which fills the last years of his life. He died in Lisbon, on 19 September 1934. Marcos Portugal (1762 – 1830) The most prolific and international of Portuguese composers, Marcos Portugal, was born in Lisbon, in 1762. At the service of Queen D. Maria I and King D. João VI, he creates sacred works for the royal chapels’ festivities. However, it is for writing comic operas – opera “buffa” – that his name gains international recognition. Marcos Portugal moves to Italy, in 1792, where he premiers more than 20 operas, some of which guaranteed his success in key European cities. Upon his return to Portugal in 1800, he becomes master of the Seminário da Patriarcal and maestro of the Real Teatro de S. Carlos, where he composes some “serious” operas performed, for the most part, by Angelica Catalani. Following the court’s departure for Brazil, Marcos Portugal moves to Rio de Janeiro, in 1811, taking on the responsibilities of master of His Royal Highnesses. In 1820 he was awarded the Comenda da Ordem de Cristo. When the Portuguese court returns, he does not follow but remains at the service of his pupil, the Emperor D. Pedro I of Brazil. He died in 1830, in Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Brazil’s Independence Anthem. António Vilar (1912 – 1995) The man who lent his face to some of the most emblematic characters of the Portuguese literary and cultural pantheon – from the ruthless D. Pedro to the worldly Camões – was born on 13 October 1912, in Lisbon. Before making a name for himself in front of the cameras, he was a radio singer, reporter for O Século, bank clerk and assistant director. Despite small cinema roles, his real debut came with the film Feitiço do Império, in a performance that did not go unnoticed. Two years later, António Vilar played his first leading role, as Carlos Bonito, in the unmissable O Pátio das Cantigas. From strength to strength, Vilar consolidates his career with an increasingly enthusiastic reception from the critics. The roles of Pedro, the Cruel, in Inês de Castro, and of Camões, in the homonymous film by Leitão de Barros that premiered in 1946, opened up a world of opportunities. In the following years, António Vilar worked in Argentina, Italy, Brazil, the United States of America, France and Spain, where he settled down at the end of the 1940s and where he starred in around 40 films. Plentifully blessed, the actor dedicates his last years to the dream of producing a film about Ferdinand Magellan, funded with his own money. Even though the dream of bringing the explorer’s achievements to the big screen did not come true, we are left with a replica of a ship that was donated, upon his death, to the collection of the National Commission of the Portuguese Discoveries. Tecnical Data Emissão / issue 2012 / 02 / 13 Selos / stamps €0,32 - 235 000 €0,68 - 185 000 €0,80 - 135 000 Design - Folk Design / Sofia Martins Créditos / Credits Selo €0,32 - Marcos António Portugal, pintado por Debret e aberto por Pradier. Gravura da Autoria de Charles-Simon Pradier (1783-1847) baseada na pintura de Jean -Baptiste Debret (1768-1848). A obra de Debret deverá datar de c.1820-182; Te Deum laudamus Com toda a orquestra, música de Marcos Portugal, promenor do manuscrito original, Rio de Janeiro 1817. Fotos área de música da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Selo €0,68 - Pormenor da primeira página do jornal A Lucta, de 5 de Outubro de 1910 (2.ª edição, arquivo Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa; Brito Camacho, foto col. particular; Selo €0,80 - António Vilar, em provável produção espanhola contracenando com Carmen Dolores, em A Vizinha do Lado, de António Lopes Ribeiro, 1945, fotos col. Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema. Agradecimentos / Acknowledgments Adriana Gesteiro, António Jorge Marques, Carmen Dolores, herdeiros de Manuela de Brito Camacho. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema, Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa. Papel / paper FSE 110 g/m2 Formato / size selos / stamps: 30,6 x 40 mm Picotagem / perforation Cruz de Cristo / Cross of Christ 13 x 13 Impressão / printing - offset Impressor / printer - Joh. Enschedé Folhas / sheets Com 50 ex. / with 50 copies Sobrescritos de 1º dia / FDC C6 – 0,56 Pagela / brochure 0,70 Obliterações e 1º dia / First Day Obliterations Estação de Correios dos Restauradores Lisboa Estação de Correios do Município Porto Estação de Correios Zarco Funchal Estação de Correios Antero de Quental Ponta Delgada

Academia Militar - 175 Years

Academia Militar - 175 Years 
The Escola do Exército was created on 12 January 1837 by marquis Sá da Bandeira, being the most distinguished predecessor of the current Academia Militar. After the Restoration, King João IV created the Lição de Artilharia e Esquadria, in 1641, which can be considered the first school aimed at training higher military personnel. It was followed by the Aula de Fortificação e Arquitectura Militar, the Academia Militar da Corte, the Academia Real de Marinha and the Real Colégio dos Nobres. In 1790, Queen Maria I, created the Academia Real de Fortificação, Artilharia e Desenho, considered as the “first truly scientific school aimed at higher education in subject matters of interest to officers of the Portuguese army”. In 1837, in an atmosphere of great political unrest and instability, marquis Sá da Bandeira (who was a former student of the Academia Real), created the Escola do Exército, as part of a vast and profound reform of the Portuguese Higher Education. The teaching method was compared to the method of the Universidade Portuguesa and its teachers enjoyed the same honours and categories. The Escola do Exército, initially set up in the Real Colégio dos Nobres, was later transferred to another location in Lisbon and took up its current premises at Paço da Rainha (or Bemposta) in 1851. After having undergone successive restructurings (Escola do Exército 1837-1910, Escola de Guerra 1911- -1919, Escola Militar 1919-1938 and again Escola do Exército 1938-1959), the Academia Militar was created on 12 February 1959 with the aim of preparing Army and Air Force officers and, since then, its courses have, “for general purposes, been of the same standing as other higher education courses”. The law creating the Academia Militar refers the 12 of January as the “anniversary of the establishment of the Escola do Exército”, that will celebrate its 175th anniversary in 2012. With headquarters in Lisbon and a detachment in Amadora, it is the Academia Militar’s mission, as a public military university/higher education institution to train the Army’s and the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR)’s core staff. The Academia Militar, it provides the future officers with the competences necessary for the missions carried out by the Army and by the GNR, furthering individual development for the performance of command and management duties. In harmony with the Bologna process, the Academia Militar awards its officers a master degree, thus promoting the Escola do Exército, that over the last 175 years has had several of its students occupying high State positions – seven became Presidents of the Portuguese Republic – particularly in operations in the African Campaigns, in World War I, in the Overseas Campaigns and more recently in as varied operational theatres as Bosnia, Kosovo, Angola, Mozambique, Somalia, Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. With this philatelic issue, the CTT joins in the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Escola do Exército, thus acknowledging the Army (Airforce up to 1982 and since 1991 the GNR) officers headquarters’ indispensable contribution to the training of leaders who, with the feather and the sword, so expertly have built and advanced Portugal in the concert of Nations. Academia Militar

Israel - Christmas 2011 Stamps

Cover sent from Israel with Christmas stamps and postamrks.
Thanks to Paulo Duek.

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