Portuguese possessions

Portugal’s loss of colonial Brazil in 1822 scarcely rustled stamp collectors’ album pages, because that historical event occurred before the age of adhesive stamps. We owe thanks to Portugal, nevertheless, for retaining her other possessions into the stamp era and providing them with postal services that have given us varied and interesting Portuguese colonials to collect. The stamps might come from formerly uninhabited mid-Altantic islands; or from coastal regions of East Africa; or perhaps from forts on the western edge of the Indian subcontinent; or even from a peninsula on the China coast. Today’s collectors can have them all, and often at far more tempting prices than those asked for many GB colonials.

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