Brazil Stamps [5th Post]

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Today's post will be focused in Brazil stamps,, lots of them..!.. I will show them chronologically as usual, and a great part are new entries for series with other stamps I have showed before or I had already in the collection... so ,the post it will be confusing , for a new viewer,but with many beautiful stamps...

To start,I have the highest value of a series from 1894... it is a very famous series,with 6 different designs,representing the "Sugar Loaf" Mountain , the Head of Liberty and Mercury... this is , as I said,the highest value and I cannot restrain myself from saying that this is an ugly stamp!! I don't understand why such a long neck?? it is surprisingly long,isn't it?? (my ignorance ,perhaps!!??) ..
Catalogs talk about a Purple & Gray stamp but I think that the black exists also in the stamp,so we must be dealing with a tri-colored stamp (when we are talking about colors ,our opinions are all valid views of the same reality... even the catalogs don't talk about the same colors!!!..[ purple & grey or lilac grey & black ])..
The stamps of this series could present different perforations and papers , and we are talking about several redrawn series ,some of them with several types for each design (for the head of liberty, for example..)...So ,it is a series that we must approach with caution and if we want to have it well classified ,if it is important to us , then we should have here a difficult series to complete with many stamps to buy,most of them apparently identical...

1894 "Sugar Loaf Mountain, Liberty and Mercury" (11) [Litho] Sc(124)

[Left]  Beautiful stamp showing a Portuguese Navigator, D.Carlos I (the Portuguese King in those days..) , the Liberty wearing the Brazilian flag and President Afonso Penna of Brazil... at the distance , numerous ships navigating the waters of one of the many Brazilian Ports... for a thematic collector , this is one of those stamps with many points of interest ...Both these two stamps I'm showing now are engraved and printed by ABNC and designed by Henrique Bernardelli ,active in the Design of Brazilian stamps from 1906 to 1909...

1908 "Centenary of the Opening of Brazilian Ports to Foreign Commerce" (1) [Des (Henrique Bernardelli)][Recess (ABNC,New York)] Sc(190)
[Right] Here we have the Emblems of Peace, Industry and Commerce together in just one stamp ,commemorating the Rio de Janeiro 1908 National Exhibition... it is again a very nice single colored stamp... very beautiful..
1908 "Rio de Janeiro National Exhibition" (1) [Des (Henrique Bernardelli)][Recess (ABNC,NY)] Sc(191)

[Left] a very "Art Nouveau" influenced design showing us the Allegoric figure of Justice...
1927 "Centenary of the Law courses" (2) [Des(P. Moraes)][Typo] Sc(288)
[Right] The focus of this stamp is the introduction of the Coffee in Brazil,that turn out to be one of the main Cultural, Industrial and Commercial activities of the country...in fact Brazilian coffee is known through out the world as one of the Best...
1928 "Bicentenary of the Introduction of the Coffee plant in Brazil" (1) [Des (L. Campos)][Typo] Sc(292)

[Left] for me ,this is one of the stamps that is in that group reserved only to the best designed ...we have to remember that this is a single color stamp,and if we see it carefully we will find that it is almost like a simple drawing in a piece of paper,drawn fluently and without many worries about the perfection of lines or with the final result..it is like a work of the moment.. very beautiful indeed...! 
the Angel  wings were already an indicative ,but if we look at the top corners of the stamp we find references to Bartolomeu de Gusmão and Santos Dummont,both pioneers of aviation ,so this would always be for sure an Air Stamp (catalogs were not needed..)[just joking..!]
1934 "AIR MAIL" (1) [Des (L. Campos)][Engr (Mario D'Oglio)][Recess] Sc(386)
[Right] another drawing that could be done at a coffee Table ,while drinking  some beers with friends (.!!)..it is very,,very simple and the result in this case was ,in my opinion,not the best...there is too much imperfection and lack of detail.. it was not the best effort..
1937 "Tercentenary of the foundation of Cametá" (2) [Recess] Sc(420)

Were we talking of lack of detail and Imperfection ??? 
1937 "Tourism Propaganda" (4) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons, London)], Sc(446,447)

 [Left][Right] these two stamps are both commemorating the New York World Fair , but one is from the first series issued in 1939 and the other from the 2nd series,issued in 1940.. The NY World Fair had in fact taken place in 1939 so these were actual stamps, commemorating something very actual... in the 400r orange stamp we have a beautiful design of Washington ,and it has a very familiar look, because it was done by ABNC,NY itself...some vignettes of US stamps couldn't be much better..!! in the red 5000r we've got a right profile of Brazilian President Vargas...it is also a [Recess] printed stamp and the engraving seems very nice to me..
1939 "NY World Fair (1st Series)" (4) [Recess (ABNC,NY)] Sc(480)
1940 "NY World Fair (end Series)" (3) [Des (L. Campos)][Recess] Sc(497)

[Left] We have here a series commemorating a cattle Fair ... there are some points to be taken with attention when dealing with this series... the perforation and the wmk... I could not resolve the wmk problem,because it is of difficult visualization " at naked eye" ,but I can tell You that the wmk have the words "BRASIL CORREIO" surrounded with stars.. the problem is that in same cases the letters have 7mm high and other 5mm high... the difference is this,and if You can see clearly the Wmk,perhaps You can identify it properly....I could not do this , again!!! 
these are 2 stamps designed by a man that deserved much more than it had... it is for now a dead man or a very old man, it has designed hundreds of stamps for Brasil and there is even a single biographical data of him or a photo or something in the Net.. there are many  other cases like him in the world of Stamp designing [ he almost for sure worked for the Casa da Moeda in Brazil..] his name is/was Bernardino da Silva Lanceta... 
1942 "2nd Agricultural and Cattle Show,Uberaba" (2) [Des (Bernardino Lanceta)][Engr (W.B. de Freitas)][Recess] Sc(535,536)
[Right] Unfortunately, I have now one more PDSMID ("Please don't show me in detail") stamp to show... it is one of those stamps that look OK in a first view but we should not look it in detail !! Ahhh!! the faces, always ,the faces..!! they look very bad ! we rapidly  regret our impulsive decision of click in the image... the first opinion we have of the stamp was far much better than the last one we have after see it more closely...!
The stamp itself present us Bartolomeu de Gusmão showing to some people his new Flying Machine...
1944 "AIR MAIL / Week of the Wing" (1) [Recess] Sc(C60)

The Victory series of 1945 in each one of the many Allied countries in the World was in some cases very beautiful..I could remember here some examples , but we have here and now a group of 5 beautiful Brazilian stamps and so we must talk a little about it... the violet 20c stamp talks about something related with the feeling we get when thinking about somebody we use to know but that unfortunately died,..it is a feeling , we Portuguese and Brazilians, call SAUDADE (the word is also used in some more different occasions...) in this case 'Saudade' from those who died in WWII... the 2nd stamp is about the Glory of the Winner, the 3rd represents the Victory announced by Angels playing trumpets while the Flags of the United alliance tops many of the symbols of the human Achievement... the 4th stamp present us the Rainbow announcing again times of Peace and Prosperity and the 5th and last stamp is focused on cooperation and in some kind of AIR Line (I don't really understand it)...never mind!!
1945 "Victory of Allied Nations in WWII" (5) [DEs (L.Campos 20c)(M.F. Pinheiro 40c,5$)(J.R. de Souza 1$,2$)][Engr (W.B. de Freitas 20c)(F. Ferruzi 40c)(Mario D'Oglio 1$,5$)(J.R. de Souza 2$)][Recess] Sc(628,...,632) 

 [Left] We find again Bernardino Lanceta with another beautiful and Famous series ,showing us the breathtaking view of Rio de Janeiro in a series commemorating one more Congress of the Rotary International...
1948 "AIR MAIL / 39th Congress of Rotary,Rio de Janeiro" (2) [Des (Bernardino Lanceta)][Engr (R.da Fonseca)][Recess] Sc(C66,C67)
[Right] beautiful,simple but very beautiful..! a great example of the Excellency of some Brazilian stamps.!.. 
1948 "AIR MAIL / Centenary of the National School of Music" (1) [Des (A. Fagundes)][Recess] Sc(C70)

 now,  for a change ,here are two [Litho] printings.. very nice stamps ..nothing to say about designs,engravings or printings except the annoying fact of don't know who were the people involved in the process..! it is a shame that the work of so many good people was deliberately forgotten ,hidden somewhere inside a Gigantic Machine that only print, print, and print...! well ,this is what we have and we must live with it....
[Left] 1952 "500th Anniversary of Queen Isabella of Spain" (1) [Litho] Sc(717)
[Right] 1952 "Stamp Day / 2nd São Paulo Philatelic Exhibition" (1) [Litho] Sc(727)

I have many more Brazilian stamps to show,but I have to stop here because this is already a long post with many conversation between me , me and perhaps some of you...this time I really talked a lot..! Sorry!!

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Belgium (7th Post) Brazil (4th Post)

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To start this small post , I was thinking of presenting some King Leopold I stamps, but problems with the Wmk detection, led me to the necessity of presenting them in a future post... The truth is that I am not certain of the presence or not of a Wmk... there are 3 unperforated series with Wmk and 2 without it , but the designs in 4 of them are quite identical...without the presence of a clear Wmked stamp , I cannot extrapolate about the more or less difficulty of seeing the wmk without instruments, so I prefer not to present them...Last Wednesday I was minutes away from concluding the purchase of a modern Wmk detector, but my finances were advising me not to complete the deal... when I was reaching the final steps of the Internet process, the site crashed and I was unable to finish it... then I thought one more time and I decided that was not the right moment to buy this instrument... but I need it , badly..! I have hundreds of "small" definitive stamps (mainly from the Commonwealth..),waiting for a last look at the wmk's , and in most of the cases , it is keeping them to enter the collection...

This is the 1920 series dedicated to the Antwerp Olympic Games... the series was surcharged , each one of the stamps with 20c , in 1921...until that moment in time , this was the first incursion of ABNC in Belgium... previously , some influence of Waterlow took place with some famous pictorial series....the stamps are very well designed and engraved,beautiful frames also...

I want to highlight two small details , without any relevance (I'm sure...!), regarding the Surcharges... the 1st is related with the green 5c stamp, where a significant red dot appears at the right top of the stamp....the 2nd, a small break in the black line , presented in the red 10c stamp.... 

1921 "Surcharge on 1920 "Olympic Games, Antwerp"" (3) [Recess (ABNC)] Sc(140,....,142)

Here are two series where the charity efforts of Queen Astrid are well represented...in the top 3 stamps, the Royal Children are shown ( the middle brown stamp is damaged ) and in the others Queen Astrid appear holding Prince Baudouin( this last series was issued after her death)...

1935 "Queen Astrid's Appeal" (3) [Photo] Sc(B163,...,B165)

1937 "Queen Astrid Public Utility Fund" (8) [Photo] Sc(B189,...,B196)

here is a MS from the series where several views of the Koekelberg Basilica are shown...the tax  presented in these stamps was for aiding the building (Completion) Fund...

1938 "Koekelberg Basilica" (7+MS) [Des/Engr (Jean De Bast)][Recess] Sc(B221)

A series from 1941, with several representations of different statues...the series is incomplete , with one stamp missing (1.50F+25c), and the MS is also presented with the stamp in it's perforated form...

One important fact in the stamps of this and posterior periods is that the Country Label could be written as "Belgie/Belgique" or "Belgique/Belgie" , sometimes the two different forms coexists in the same series,as we can see in this and in the next series..

1941 "Winter Relief Fund / Statues" (10+MS) [Photo] Sc(B305,...,B309)(B311,...B315)

Here it is another incomplete series, with the 10F+30F stamp missing... the series has also a MS presented above... if we pick our last words from the previous series, we can see that the country label changes from one form to the other ,from stamp to stamp... but it isn't the only thing that changes .. with it,  the 'signatures'  of the Designer and engraver also changes from left to right  .. Another interesting fact is that the first 4 stamps (values less than 1F) are engraved and [Photo] printed, and the others are all [Recess] Printed...The MS seems to me ( and I have no data about it) like a [Photo] work...The portraits presented in these stamps are of famous Scientists...in the MS the Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella are represented...

1942 "Anti tuberculosis Fund / Famous Scientists" (9+MS) [Des (E. Renard)][Engr (M. Poortmaan)][Photo ( 10c to 60c)][[Recess (Others)]

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Now ,I have a last group of Brazilian Emperor D.Pedro II stamps to add to the collection...

in my last post with Brazil stamps, I have shown my first D. Pedro II stamps...I said I would be a dedicated collector of these stamps, so here are some more... from the first group, 3 of them (10r,50r, and 100r) are already in the collection and 3 others (20r,200r and 500r) are new entries...these are stamps from the 1st D.Pedro II series, a perforated one .

in this series , we have to highlight two types of 100r stamps:

As you can see by clicking the pictures,as always, the borders of the top left ornament are faint in type 1 and reinforced with a double line in type 2 ... we have also a faint  frame border line at the center , in type 1, and a reinforced double line in type 2... it is very clear in both pictures...these two types are valid for this series and in the next one , the first rouletted series of 1876/1877 ...

The 7th stamp is a new entry from the rouletted series of 1876/1877 that share the designs with the first perforated series of 1866/1868 ( the previous 6 stamps were from this series..)

the last two stamp are from  the 2nd rouletted series of 1878/1879 , with new designs of an older Emperor, with white beard... SG talks about two varieties of this stamp,one with mauve color and the other with lilac color... if we see the two stamps in detail, we will find that the first is darker than the 2nd ,but I don't think that they are different colors, just different shades from the same color... it is another of the great things about this group of series, the diversity of colors and shades...Today is one of those days when I feel sorry for not having neither a watermark detector or a Color Selector... this last one is very cheap and I will buy one briefly...

I think the next post will be again about a South or Central American country...perhaps a "debut" in the blog... I don't know yet..

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Brazil (3rd Post)

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I was thinking of doing some work with Israeli stamps, but at the last moment, I decided myself for the Brazilian ones...some of my first stamps were from Brazil but until now there was an enormous gap in my collection.. I didn't had any D. Pedro stamps...now that I've got some of them I really want to have many more, not only by the presence of a great amount of color shades, but also for the beautiful designs and at last by the work and influence, again, of ABNC...

These are 3 beautiful stamps from the D.Pedro II 1866/1868 series... the stamps of this series present several different frames, sometimes with the same vignette, as in these stamps...As I said above , the stamps were designed, engraved and printed by ABNC, New York, and this influence is very notorious... at the same time it increases the quality of the stamps, because in those days American stamps, were known to be very well printed...from the very detailed and well designed frame to the frame ornaments, everything seems to be very ABNC.  
My SG catalog has references of the existence of many shades of the Green 100r, but I don't know if there are also shades in the other values of the series... that's a future task for me , to buy some more spare stamps from some of these values to better understand and study this subject...in some cases, the stamps could be printed in a "blued" paper, and this fact increases a lot it's value... this only happens in the stamps until 100r , the high values , 200r and 500r , are excluded from this 'talk'...
to end this small presentation of this 1866 series , I need to talk about two small details...the first is the possible existence of two types of 100r stamps : 

I only have one of these stamps, so just one of the two types are presented... the leftmost top ornament has a very faint border (Type 1) or a clear double border line (type 2)...
This is clearly a type 1 stamp...






The 2nd is that in 1876/1877 a new series is printed with the same designs and values, but without a clear 12 perforation... this new series is rouletted , like the two following stamps...

1866/1868 "Emperor D. Pedro II" (7) [Des/Engr (ABNC,New York)][Recess (ABNC,New York)] Sc(53,56,58)

this is the rouletted series of 1878/1879 , presenting us an older Emperor with a clear white beard..I want to emphasize that  these two stamps are presented with different sizes, but we all know that the stamps are of the same size ( for those who are not experienced in scans , I could say that if we apply the same scan detail [600ppp in this case] to the two stamps separately , the final result will be different depending on the size of the background paper that appear [ the limits You define for the scan ] ; when I'm taking the scans I'm not thinking in joining them in a a solo image [but I should be!!], and this is unfortunately what happens!!!)

Another beautiful series with lots of different frames and even some different portraits...it is again work of ABNC,New York ...

1878/1879 "Emperor D. Pedro II" (10) [Des/Engr (ABNC,New York)][Recess (ABNC,New York)] Sc(72,75)

this is one of the stamps from the series known as "Small Heads"... I don't have any other stamps of this or the other next series , also known as "Larger Heads" ... I think that there must be a difference in sizes , but it is easy to distinguish the two 50r of each one of them (and I know the other by looking at the catalog..) simply by the design... there are several differences but the one that is more clear to me is the curvature of the base of emperor's neck (in my "small head"  stamp) , differing from the almost flat  base neck of the "Large Head" stamp...

Other strange aspect is that SG talks about a dull blue or bright blue for this 50r stamp... I think this is definitely not a dull blue , but it is not a bright blue neither  ; it is a particular blue, not the one  we call commonly as blue...I think one more time that the existence of many shades is a distinct possibility.. there are plenty of interesting features in this series.

1881 "Emperor D. Pedro II (Small Heads)" (3) [Recess] Sc(79)

This and the next stamp, belong to that group of stamps I rather have in used condition than like this... I should have taken the scan with a lower resolution, but  I preferred to show them this way, but there is always a problem.. the stamps are not prepared for this detail and all the imperfections appear... imperfections in the illustration and engraving.. I don't know if  I've got a good or a fake stamp!! there are two many bad details , specially in the next stamp... but In the end i think they are both  genuine stamps, only because their value don't justify the existence of fake stamps...

1915 "300th Anniversary of the discovery of Cape Frio" (1) [Des (H.T. da Silva)][Engr (J.B.Paiva)][Litho] Sc(195)

1916 "300th Anniversary of the City of Belem" (1) [Des (H.T. da Silva)][Engr (J.B.Paiva)][Litho] Sc(196)

This is the complete 'Centenary of the Independence' Series... I already had the 300r stamp, and the fact allowed me to see that there are different shades from this green stamp..

The first stamp, a blue 100r represents what happened at the margins of the river Ipiranga , that lead to the War of Independence and to the Brazil Independence from the Portuguese Empire...  ; the second one, represents a portrait of the emperor side by side with one of José Bonifácio ; the third stamp represents the National Expostion of Rio de Janeiro and a portrait of President Pessoa...

1922 "Independence Centenary" (3) [Des( MINT, Rio de Janeiro 100r,200r)][Des (Waterlow and sons Limited, London)][Recess [Waterlow and Sons Limited, London)] Sc(260,...,262)

These are stamps from a very famous Air Mail series, with focus on the contribution of Brazilian Pioneers to the development of Aviation...some strange and "wild" Airships were represented in this [Typo] printed stamps...it is a complex series, and it is not complete , with 3 more High values missing, this time [Recess] printed stamps... 

When we are working with this series we must have in mind that  4 different Wmk's are used in the series...

 (A)



                                            B)

C)

                                           D)

Two Printings of the five [Typo] stamps above existed, one with Wmk A ("CM" in Multiple Stars) (1929) and the other with Wmk B ("Southern Cross") (1934)  ; Wmk C ("CASA DA MOEDA" between rows of Stars) was used for the 3 high values (2000r,5000r,10000r, and the Wmk 4 ("BRASIL CORREIO" repeated in columns) was only used in a single stamp of 5000r.

Other aspect we should be aware of is the great variety of different perforations that could exist  in all the 3 High values ;I had already two stamps , one of 50r and the other of 300r in the collection, and I think we can add to all of this the presence of color shades, because my two 50r present very different  greens... 

So, after this considerations I think this is a challenging series to collect.. it has many of the ingredients necessary for a good "meal".!!..

1929 "AIR MAIL / Brazilian Aviation Pioneers" (8) [Des (Dr. G. Barroso)][Typo] Sc(C17,...,C21)

To end this small post , I have a series from 1946...

it is a complete series , and the stamps, as you can see are not presented according to their fv... a simple and clear view of the 6 engraved stamps, show us the presence of Waterlow and sons, with 3 magnificent stamps representing a plane over Rio de Janeiro...

The first stamp is [litho] printed and the other 6 are [Recess] printed by Waterlow...

1946 "5th Postal Union Congress of the Americas and Spain" (7) [Litho (MINT) 40c][Engr /Recess (Waterlow and Sons, Limited, London) others] Sc(643,...,649)

Well, it all for today... I have more Commemoratives from Brazil,but  they will be presented in a future post, where I am expecting to have many more D. Pedro II stamps...

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