BRASIL – Cover from S. Paulo, Brasil to Braga, Portugal

Cover with stamp of R$2.00 from the Portugal-Brazil Joint Issue: The Power of Language- Cruz e Sousa posted on November, 8 2012.

Special cancellation of the 'Portugal Day' at LUBRAPEX 2012 - International Stamps Exhibition.

(A very special thanks to my friend João Augusto)

Cruz e Sousa
This issue has been designed in the form of a se-tenant, with two stamps, focusing in the center, the poet Cruz e Sousa.

On the seal on the left you can see, beyond the image of the author's signature. On the right side of the stamp, it has been fragment of poetry Ser Pássaro, from the book Derradeiro (1945).

As a complement to poetry, illustration of a black swan, nickname of the author in literary circles Symbolists.

Fernando Pessoa

This se-tenant, with two stamps, brings at the center, the poet Fernando Pessoa, and the stamp  on the right side you can see is signature and, on the left, a piece of poetry Mar Português, the book Mensagem (1934).

The caravel appearing alongside a symbol of poetry is directly related to the content, as it leads to the sea.

Both stamps have the logo of the Lubrapex 2012 international stamps exhibition.

The technique was illustrated with watercolor to pen and digital finishing in Illustrator program.

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 07 September 2012

Values: two se-tenant stamps of R$2.00

Designer: Luis Duran

Printer:

Process: offset

Size:

Perforation:

Paper: couchet gummed

Watermark:

Sheet: sheets of 24 stamps

Issues Plan 2013 - Portugal

Plano de emissões 2013 - Portugal

Segundo o director de Filatelia dos CTT, o plano de emissões para 2013, já aprovado, será o seguinte:

A – Vultos da História e da Cultura da Lusofonia

1 - Ilse Losa (notável escritora infantil); Raul Rego (figura cimeira da política portuguesa); João dos Santos (Fundador da Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicanálise, cientista , médico e benemérito); Prof. Engº Edgar Cardoso (eminente Engenheiro e cientista) ; João Villaret (grande ator e declamador);

B – Emissões Temáticas

2 - Sabores do Ar e do Fogo (2ª série)

3 - A Rota das Catedrais (2ºsérie)

4 - O Ouro Arcaico – Tesouros Nacionais (série única)

5 - Falcoaria ( a milenar arte da cetraria e a sua utilização atual)

6 - Natal

7 – Apicultura - Continente

8 – Vultos do Desporto Luso-Brasileiro

C – Emissões Temáticas Açores e Madeira

9 – Apicultura – Açores

10 – Apicultura – Madeira

D – Emissões Protocoladas

11 – EUROPA 2013 – Portugal Continente, Portugal Açores , Portugal Madeira (tema: Veículos Postais).

12– Correio Escolar (concurso promovido pelo Min. Educação)

E – Datas da História

13 – 1000 Anos da publicação do Código de Avicena

14 –500 anos dos contatos por via marítima entre Portugal e a República Popular da China

15 – Evocação das Missões Católicas em África

16 – Centenário das Missões Laicas em África

17 – Bicentenário do nascimento de Giuseppi Verdi e Richard Wagner

F – Eventos de projeção Internacional

18 - 2013 – Ano Internacional da Estatística (celebrando os 300 Anos da publicação da Ars Conjectandi -Bernnoulli; Da Lei dos Grandes Números e do Paradoxo de S. Petersburg).

G – Etiquetas de Franquia de Máquinas Automáticas (ATM)

- Ano Internacional do Cidadão (UNESCO)

- 150 anos da Cruz Vermelha Internacional

H – Emissão-Base : Festas Tradicionais Portuguesas (última série)

Issues Plan 2013 - Portugal
According to the Director of Philately CTT, the emissions plan for 2013, as approved, will be as follows:

A – Personalities of History and Culture of Lusofonia
1 - Ilse Losa (notable writer infant); Raul Rego (Portuguese political figure Summit); João dos Santos (Founder of the Portuguese Society for Psychoanalysis, scientist, physician and benefactor); Prof. Eng Edgar Cardoso (eminent scientist and engineer), João Villaret (great actor and reciter);

B - Thematic Issues
2 - Flavours of Air and Fire (2nd series)
3 - The Route of the Cathedrals (2nd series)
4 - The Ancient Gold - National Treasures (serial only)
5 - Falconry (the ancient art of falconry and its current use)
6 - Christmas
7 - Beekeeping - Continent
8 - Shades of Sport Luso-Brazilian

C - Thematic Issues Azores and Madeira
9 - Beekeeping - Azores
10 - Beekeeping - Wood

D - Emissions filed
11 - EUROPE 2013 - Mainland Portugal, Portugal Azores Portugal Madeira (theme: Postal Vehicles).
12 - Post School (contest sponsored by Education Min)

E - Dates of History
13-1000 Years of publication of the Code of Avicenna
14 -500 years of contacts by sea between Portugal and the People's Republic of China
15 - Summoning of Catholic Missions in Africa
16 - Centennial Lay Mission in Africa
17 - Bicentennial of the birth of Giuseppi Verdi and Richard Wagner

F - International Events projection
18 - 2013 - International Year of Statistics (celebrating the 300 years of the publication of Ars-Conjectandi Bernnoulli; Da Law of Large Numbers and the St. Petersburg Paradox).

G - Labels Franchise Automatic Machine (ATM)
- International Year of the Citizen (UNESCO)
- 150 years of the International Red Cross

H - Definitives: Traditional Portuguese Festivals (last series)

Portuguese Engineering

Stamps

Souvenir sheet

First Day Cover with stamps   (I)

First Day Cover with stamps (II)

Brochure

    Over time, Engineering and Engineers have played a role of stimulating progress, of projects leading to innovation, from engines to the development of society and the economy, breaking many barriers, many of which were natural ones, in order to advance humanity.

They are not the only agents of change, but they are elements in the first line of this movement. Earlier on, when Engineering had not yet been formally and conceptually constituted as such, the survival and conquest of Man had already depended on clever devices.

As time went by, it was mainly with the 1st Industrial Revolution that the indispensability of a class that would bring large-scale production, communications, machinery and equipment became evident, and from then on, Engineering would multiply activities and specialties of its art without ever stopping until the present day.

The issue of these stamps represent the engineering specialties formally structured in the Order of Engineers and those that historically bring together the greater representativeness in the country, both in terms of professionals, and in terms of interventions and achievements in Society.

What better model to represent Engineering if not the ways in which it is expressed?

The essence of Engineering and also its most fundamental mission is to put nature at the disposal of Man in an appropriate and safe manner for it to be usable and provide well-being.

This concept has evolved and is now present in the most complex and technologically advanced areas, in telecommunications, IT, information systems, nanotechnology, bioengineering, energy production and efficiency, the sustainable management of the natural and built environments, and the complex structures of networks or of works, many of which are true “masterpieces”.

Portuguese Engineering has developed in Portugal and abroad with activities and works of recognized value, many of which have collected international awards.

It is naturally an area that has what it takes to remain, for working, studying, analyzing, designing, and conceiving and for giving its best contribution in the construction of the country and of society.

Technical Details

Date of Issue: 19 October 2012

Values: stamps of 0,32€, 0,47€, 0,57€, 0,68€, 0,80€ and 1,800€

Special sheet: with two sets

Designer: João Machado

Photos:

Credits:

Printer: Joh. Enschedé

Process: Offset 4 Colors

Size: 80 x 30,6 mm

Size special sheet: 110 x 185 mm

Perforation: Cross of Christ 13 x 13

Paper: FSC 110 g./m2

Watermark:

Sheet: with 50 stamps

Merry Christmas

ALAND - Postcard from Mariehamn, Aland to Braga, Portugal

 

Official Aland Post maximum postcard sent on December 2012.