Portuguese India: Stamps, Territories and the Post Across Borders
From Goa’s numerals of 1871 to royal portraits, republican overprints, Ceres, the decimal reform and the move to Indian administration.
Portuguese India
From Goa's 1871 numerals to royal portraits, republican overprints, Ceres, the decimal reform and the transition to Indian administration.
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Portuguese India: Places, Rulers and a Collecting Guide
A framework of places, dates, inscriptions and currencies for the stamps and postal items of Portuguese India.
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Portuguese India Before Stamps: Routes and Connections with British India
Royal letters, Mediterranean routes and one cover that crossed three administrations show how the post came before stamps.
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Portuguese India 1871: the First Locally Printed Stamps
Five first values, the New Goa press, and the difference between an order to print and a stamp that was issued.
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Portuguese India Native Stamps: Dies, Papers, Reprints and Forgeries
How to identify the local numeral issues, keeping the stamps of the time apart from later collectors’ material.
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Portuguese India: the Crown Issues and the Surcharges of 1881–1883
A Crown design shared across the colonies became a distinctive Portuguese India field through new values and repeated changes of value.
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Portuguese India: Luís I and Carlos I, Portraits and Changed Values
Luís I’s embossed head and the two Carlos I designs give a framework for the royal definitives and their later adaptations.
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Portuguese India 1898: Vasco da Gama and the Voyage in Pictures
The commemoratives of 1898 turned the voyage of 1498 into a sequence of stamps that the republic later adapted.
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Portuguese India: REPUBLICA and the Divided Stamps of 1910–1913
Republican overprints, the stamp shortage of 1912 and the surcharge decree of 1913, with the quantities of the time and a registered Daman cover.
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Portuguese India Ceres Stamps: Papers, Perforations and Everyday Use
A long-lived definitive whose paper and perforation groups matter as much as its familiar republican figure.
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Portuguese India Postage Dues: Numerals, PORTEADO and Currency Changes
Due stamps and adapted ordinary stamps record the other side of the postal account: money to be collected.
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Portuguese India: War Tax, Postal Tax and Tax-Due Stamps
The extra stamp on a letter may pay a levy rather than postage or a deficiency: identify its job before working out a rate.
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Portuguese India Postal Stationery: Cards, Impressions and Business Use
Postal cards keep their manufacture, printed instructions and business use, which a cut-out impression loses.
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Portuguese India 1931–1933: Religious Commemoration and New Definitives
The St Francis Xavier issue and the Portugal and São Gabriel definitives began two different picture programmes in the early 1930s.
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Portuguese India 1938: Airmail, Navigators and Colonial Issues
Separate the airmail stamps, the navigator pictorials and the colonial commemorations before reading a route or a franking.
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Portuguese India in the 1940s and 1950s: Portraits, Forts and Maps
Later issues showed historical people, religion, philately and territorial claims, while older picture stocks went on receiving new values.
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Portuguese India 1959: Decimal Currency, Local Surcharges and the Coin Series
The decree of 1958, the change at the counter in 1959 and the stamps actually reported on sale are three different things.
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Portuguese India 1961–1975: Transfer, Postal Succession and the Unissued INDIA Stamps
The political transfer, the old postal material that survived it and the proposals that were never issued each need their own chronology.
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Portuguese India: Postmarks, Rates and the Evidence of a Complete Cover
Dated cancellations, numeral obliterators and cross-border frankings become useful when their jobs are kept apart; with the Indian rates of 1907.
