Sent & Received

PORTUGAL – Cover from Atouguia da Baleia, Portugal to Braga, Portugal

2012-02-01T07:46:00.001Z

Commercial cover with stamp of 0,32€ from the issue ‘Aqui Há Selo’ posted on December, 23 2011.

INDIA – Postcard from Jaipur - Rajasthan, India to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-30T07:56:00.002Z

Postcard representing the Amer Fort from Jaipy, state of Rajasthan with stamps from the issue ‘Indian Postage Stamps: Princely States – Princely State of Indore’, posted on January, 10 2012.
(Special thanks to my best friend César Meireles)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amer_Fort

Welcome the 23000th Visitors

2012-01-30T07:54:00.002Z

Aqui ficam as melhores saudações Filatélicas, para os visitantes de todo o mundo, que diariamente visitam o meu blog.

(English version)
Here are the best Philatelic greetings to visitors from all over the world who daily visit my blog.

CHINA – Postcard from Suzhou, China to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-29T22:26:00.000Z

Postcard ‘China & the World, Shanghai & World Expo, World Heritage & Lijiang’ sent on January, 5 2012
(Special Thanks to my friend Wei Xu)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Town_of_Lijiang

GERMANY – Postcard from Hildesheim, Germany to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-26T08:03:00.001Z

Season Greetings postcard posted on December, 22 2011.
(Special thanks to my best friend Helge Holland)

TURKEY – Cover from Bursa, Turkey to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-24T19:53:00.000Z

Cover with stamps from the 2009 ‘The Sultan’s Boats’ stamps issue posted on December, 17 2011.
(A very special thanks to my friend Baris Yakar)

The set of stamps shows us the Sultan’s boat an imperial caique used by the Sultan and his family for local travel.
The name used is SALTANAT KAYIGI for this craft.
Each Sultan had one built for his own use, and the last was used till World War I.
The craft is heavily ornamented along the sides and at the stern and bow.
Bow elongated and horizontal or upturned and recurved.

Commonly she carried a figurehead of a golden bird, this craft was known as a bird caique.
An ornate pavilion at the stern provided shelter for the Sultan his family and guests.
She was double banked and rowed by 26 men, steered by a rudder with a tiller.
The early boats were also equipped with double sails.
Length between 30 and 32 meter, beam and depth between 2.5 and 3 meter.

The Sultan’s boats were used by the Sultan on the Bosporus and Golden Horn.
But many of that type were used as ferries across the Bosporus and Golden Horn by local boatmen, only she were smaller and less decorated as the boat from the Sultan.
The Sultan’s boats were always the largest craft of that time.

FRANCE – Cover from Paris, France to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-23T19:42:00.002Z

Cover and Season Greetings postcard posted on December 2011.
(A very special thanks to my best friend Hawa ALI)

LATVIA – Postcard from Riga, Latvia to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-22T18:16:00.004Z

Christmas postcard posted on December, 30 2011.
(Special thanks to my best friend Juris Tarvids)

MONACO – Postcard from Monte Carlo, Monaco to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-21T16:54:00.005Z

Christmas postcard sent by de ‘Office des Emissions de Timbre-Poste’ posted on December, 23 2011.

CANADA – Cover from Otawa, Canada to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-19T21:11:00.004Z

Cover with flower stamps posted in 2011.
(A very special thanks to my friend Maryam Irwan)

SINGAPORE – Cover from Singapore to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-18T19:21:00.000Z

Cover and Season Greeting card sento n December, 09 2011.
(A very special thanks to my friend Marlene Rodrigues)

HONG-KONG – Cover fron Kowloon, Hong Kong to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-17T20:24:00.006Z

Cover with stamps posted on October, 20 2011.
(A very special thanks to my best friend José Carlos)

BRAZIL – Covers from São Paulo, Brazil to Fafe, Portugal

2012-01-15T18:54:00.000Z

Batchof four letters sent on different dates offered by my good friend Tó Barros.

CHINA – Postcard from Lhasa - Tibete, China to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-14T19:56:00.000Z

Postcardof the Potala Palace complex (UNESCO World Heritage Site) with special red cancellationat the back posted on December, 13 2011.

(Avery special thanks to my best friend Terence Wong)

Lhasa(Tibetan ལྷ་ས་, Traditional Chinese拉薩) literally means "place of thegods".

Atan altitude of 3,490 metres, Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. Itcontains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the PotalaPalace, Jokhang temple and Norbulingka palaces.

2012 Stamps Issue Plan (without dates)

2012-01-11T20:22:00.001Z

The ‘Escola do Exército’ – 175 years

Guimarães – European Capital of Culture 2012

“Aqui Há Selo”

Traditional Portuguese Festivities (Definitives 2^ndgroup)

The Word and the Image

Major Characters of Portuguese History and Culture

Projects and Engineers

The Douro River

Fajãs – Azores

Levadas – Madeira

Europa 2012 – Visit…

1st Humorists Exhibition – Centenary

European Football Championship

The Instituto de Ciências Sociais – 50 years

Olympic and Paralympic Games

The Venus Transit 2012

Fado (2^nd group)

Portuguese Cathedrals (1^st group)

Erasmus – 25 years

Communicate with colors

Flavors of the Air and the Fire

Joint issue Portugal – Brazil

School Mail

ATM labels

2012 International Year of Cooperatives

2012 Year of the Sustainable Energy for All

SPAIN – Postcard from Maiorca, Spain to Braga Portugal

2012-01-10T07:26:00.005Z

Postcardposted on September, 27 2011.

(Specialthanks to my best friend Sini Linnanmäki)

SINGAPORE – Cover from Singapore to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-09T07:48:00.003Z

FirstDay Cover of the stamp issue ‘Areas of Historical Significance’ and postcard postedon August, 08 2011.

(Avery special thanks to my best friend Terence Wong)

Announcing brochure

ALGERIA – Cover from Setif, Algeria to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-08T15:54:00.000Z

FirstDay Cover of the ‘Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Alger (FIBDA)2011’ posted on October, 2 2011

(Specialthanks to friend Khemissi Ouari)

SPAIN – Cover from Valencia, Spain to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-07T10:17:00.001Z

Specialcancellation of the philatelic exhibition ‘750 Aniversari dels Furs deValencia’ occurred on December, 12 2011

(Specialthanks to friend Luis Cases)

FINLAND – Cover from Kälviä, Finland to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-06T08:09:00.003Z

First Day Cover and set of stamps of the 2011 Christmas stamps issue posted on December, 07 2011.

(Specialthanks to my best friend Sini Linnanmäki)

USA – Postcard from New York, USA to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-05T07:29:00.000Z

Wall-Epostcard and stamp, posted on December 2011

(Specialthanks to my friend Igor Adolph)

ARGENTINA – Cover from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-04T07:19:00.003Z

Coverand Christmas postcard posted on Decembber, 05 2011.

(Specialthanks to my friend Viviana Cernjul)

LATVIA – Cover from Riga, Latvia to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-03T07:18:00.001Z

Firstday cover of the ‘Latvian Birds’ stamps issue posted on September, 23 2011.

(Specialthanks to my best friend Juris Tarvids)

OMAN – Cover from Al-Khud, Sultanate of Oman to Braga, Portugal

2012-01-02T10:40:00.002Z

Coverwith stamp, posted on November, 23 2011.

(Specialthanks to my friend M. Nidham)

Madeira Island Quintas

2012-01-01T17:15:00.004Z

Set of stamps

Souvenir sheet I

Souvenir sheet II

First Day Cover

TheQuintas da Madeira, witness to centuries past, keep the story of who gave themlife and name. Aristocratic families found themselves in Madeira where thedream of shaping a life. These infrastructures show us a way of liferooted in the feudal system of past centuries and kept alive the memories ofthe heyday of the route and Sugar Madeira Wine. Each farm has a story totell, the interiors of the houses are fragments of a life and beauty of thegardens conceal a greater or lesser variety of endemic flora of theregion. So the "Quintas da Madeira" arise from the need topreserve the estate of an interesting history of the island of Madeira and wastherefore distinguished as a hallmark of the island, its history and distinction. Meetthe Quintas da Madeira and discover beautiful places where you can spend yourholidays!

TechnicalDetails

Dateof Issue: 23.09.2011

Values:stamps of €0,32, €0,68, €0,80 and €2.00 and two souvenir sheets with one stampof €1,75 and €2.30

Designer:Pedro Antunes

Printer:Cartor

Process:4-colour offset lithography

Size:stamps 40.0 mm x 30.6 mm

Souvenirsheet 125 x 95 mm

Perforation:Cross of Christ 13 x 13

Paper:White TR CPST331 110g/m2

Watermark:

Sheet:sheets of 50 stamps

Welcome the 22000th Visitors

2011-12-31T22:21:00.002Z

Aqui ficam as melhores saudações Filatélicas, para osvisitantes de todo o mundo, que diariamente visitam o meu blog.

(Englishversion)

Hereare the best Philatelic greetings to visitors from all over the world who dailyvisit my blog.

New Year 2012

2011-12-31T10:08:00.000Z

Iwould like to wish you, Your Families and friends a Happy New Year.

That2012 can bring you all Good Health, Happiness, Success and Joy.

SERBIA - Cover from Apatin, Serbia to Braga, Portugal

2011-12-31T09:55:00.002Z

Millenium of Apatin (1011-2011) First Day Cover postedon November, 13 2011.

(Special thanks to my best friend Željko Popoviċ)

CROATIA - Cover from Nedelišće, Croatia to Braga, Portugal

2011-12-30T07:54:00.005Z

Cover with stamps posted on September, 19 2011.

(Special thanks to my best friend Tomislav Dolar)

Three years after… time to make some statistics.

2011-12-29T10:33:00.000Z

Born of a conversation with my wife, I found myself initiallyreluctant, on which interest could have a general blog on letters and postcardsexchanged with friends around the world.
This initial doubt turned out this blog as the most visited and participated inmy blogs.
To all, many thanks for your regular visits.

Now the stats...

Three years old
A total of 820 posts published

111 registered followers
Visitors from 139 countries
14694 unique visitors (812 in Portugal)
More than 45,000 page viewers
Daily average of 20 visitors
Mostly in the northern hemisphere
United States as the country with the highest number of visits (7166)
UAE the country with the last new visitor (today!)
Benin is the newest country (last visited November 10, 2011)
Blog ‘timbre ma philatélie’ the visitor that most often visited my blog with 708hits
2862 references on Google
Windows© as the OS of choice for page viewers (89%)

AUSTRALIA – Cover from Summer Hill, Australia to Braga, Portugal

2011-12-29T09:46:00.001Z

Coverwith stamps posted on September, 3 2011

(Specialtanks to friend Antonino Pappalardo)

History of Archaeology in Portugal – Stamps Book

2011-12-28T19:58:00.000Z

Presentation of the book 'History of Archaeology inPortugal', the latest edition of the Collectors Club of the Portuguese Post,held on last December 22, 2011 at the Museum D. Diogo de Souza in Braga.
Following this presentation of the book and talk about the challenges of archaeology in Portugal, an autograph session takes place by the author of the book CarlosFabião.

Me and Carlos Fabião

POLAND – Cover from Nowy Sacz, Poland to Braga, Portugal

2011-12-28T15:26:00.005Z

RegisteredFirst Day Cover of the ‘Following the traces of KAROL WOJTYŁA – NIEGOWIĆ’stamps issue, posted on September, 22 2011.

(Specialthanks to my best friend Andrzej Bek)

Stamp and tag

TechnicalDetails

Dateof Issue: 23 September 2011

Values:1 with tag of PLN 1.95

Designer:Janusz Wysocki

Printer:

Process:offset

Size:stamps 43.0 mm x 31.25 mm

Perforation:

Paper:fluorescent

Watermark:

Sheet:sheets of 5 stamps + 5 tags

PORTUGAL – Cover from Braga, Portugal to Braga, Portugal

2011-12-27T10:16:00.002Z

Specialcommemorative cover of the ‘Portugal Stamps Day’ philatelic exhibition by theNFB (Núcleo Filatélico de Braga) posted on December, 01 2011.

Daycancellation over personalized stamp and NFB Cinderella

Theatre in Portugal II

2011-12-26T10:36:00.003Z

Set of stamps

Souvenir sheet I

Souvenir sheet II

First Day Cover with stamps

Garrettrepresents the introduction of romanticism in Portuguese theatre, but more thanthat, he indisputably opened the gates to the whole structure of stage anddramaturgy modernization through his writing but also through the institutionsfor the promotion of theatre and theatrical activities which he created, in anadequately articulated perspective as regards functionality andcomplementarity: The Teatro Nacional (the company and later also the building),the Conservatório de Arte Dramática, dramaturgy contests, the Inspecção Geralde Teatros e Espectáculos, copyrights and even a subsidy system.

Allof them, duly modernized, still exist until this day. But more than that,Garrett’s own dramaturgy – of an exceptional level, despite fluctuations –brought to Portugal, from the onset of the vigorous romanticism, a style and aschool, in some cases of outstanding quality, that fed both our literature andour stages for almost a century. Even poets and novelists, who did not focus ontheatre, owe to him the renovation of style and content that to this day stilldeserves highlighting. Camilo is a clear example.

However,it was D. João da Câmara, at the passing of the century, who marked thebeginning of a realistic school that still subsist, coexisting, with fullquality and timeliness, with more modern currents that also marked and stillmark Portuguese theatre, from symbolism to modernism, from expressionism to epictheatre and to theatre of the absurd.

Fromthe beginning of the 19th century, modernist or symbolist, authors such asAlmada Negreiros, António Patrício or even Fernando Pessoa (a sporadicplaywright) deserve highlighting; as well as prevalently (but not only) realistauthors, such as Carlos Selvagem or Ramada Curto; or even Alfredo Cortez, whowith Gladiadores introduced expressionism, among others.

Theyruled the Portuguese scene, especially in the first half of the 20th Century,leaving continuity in names and notable works, as it is the case with JoséRégio or Bernardo Santareno, but also authors like Luís Francisco Rebello,Miguel Torga, Luís de Sttau Monteiro, Paço d’ Arcos, Cardoso Pires or in morerecent times, Mário Cláudio, Mário de Carvalho, Luísa Costa Gomes, FernandoDacosta, Norberto Ávila, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Abel Neves, Isabel Medina,Jacinto Lucas Pires…

Régioand Santareno, each one in his own way, symbolized the transition in PortugueseTheatre from a realistic line with poetic references, in a comprehensive sense,to a dramaturgic conception marked by the conciliation between a traditionalpoetic-dramatic mix and a spirited affirmation of modernity, both from thestylistic point of view, but above all by the criticism of the contents: theplays are profoundly critical and profoundly modern, even when taking place inmore distant times or in fantasy situations.

Butmore than providing a mere list of names, it is important to underline theaesthetic and stylistic renewal towards modernity which these dramatistsimprinted on Portuguese theatre. It is furthermore interesting to see howPortuguese theatre, within the constraints that cyclically have influenceddramaturgic production and performing arts since the 19th century, was able tomirror the evolution of society, of attitudes and thought, of culture and art,from Garrett to the present day.

Itshould also be mentioned that, mainly after the end of the 19th century,theatre–show in Portugal gained relevance and quality, following the brilliantactors, stage directors and other scene artists who marked the regeneration ofour theatrical art. Names like José Anastácio Rosa and João Rosa, EduardoBrazão and Rosa Damasceno, Amélia Rey Colaço and Augusto Figueiredo, ArmandoCortez, Rogério Paulo and Laura Alves, Ruy de Carvalho, Cármen Dolores, EuniceMuñoz and Raul Solnado, among hundreds of other great names of the stage whohave assured the continuity of this art, which sometimes is so poorly cherishedand understood among us!

TechnicalDetails

Dateof Issue: 08.09.2011

Values:stamps of €0,32, €0,32, €0,47, €0,68, €0,80 and €1.00 and two miniature sheetswith two stamps of €1.00 each

Designer: Atelier Acácio Santos / Túlio Coelho

Printer:Joh. Enschedé

Process:4-colour offset lithography

Size:stamps 40.0 mm x 30.6 mm

Souvenirsheet 95 x 125 mm

Perforation:Cross of Christ 13 x 13

Paper:White TR CPST331 110g/m2

Watermark:

Sheet:sheets of 50 stamps

LATVIA – Cover from Riga, Latvia to Braga, Portugal

2011-12-21T07:51:00.001Z

Firstday cover of the Christmas and New Year of the Dragon stamps issue posted on December, 2 2011.

Reference to the blue cancellation ‘"Priecīgus svētkus"("Season's Greetings" in Latvian) in use at the Latvian Post standlocated on Cathedral Square in Riga.

(Special thanks to my best friend Juris Tarvids)