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March 2012 - PPS 50th Golden AGM - PORTO
The Portuguese Philatelic Society completes 50 years in existence this year! To celebrate this great milestone, we are having our AGM in Portugal as we do on a 5 year cycle, this time in Porto, the town of our current president Prof Isabel Vieira. There will be various planned activities, please watch out this space for further details.
For those who want to have a look at the auction catalogue, please click on the image below. This auction is strictly for members only, so if anyone reading this would like to join the PPS, please feel free to do so from the links available at the bottom of this page. Item images are to be added very soon.
Please find some nice images of Porto and its architectural and landscape beauty, photos contributed by our Hon president Prof Isabel Vieira, a Portista herself!.
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FILOCEANO: New CERES album for Portugal - limited edition of 25 copies!
This Portugal based philatelic publishing house specializes in the production of albums of various types for collectors specializing in Portugal and its ex-colonies. They have just lauched a special CERES album for Portugal, with luxury soft cover that is handmade and finished with gold embossing at the spine area. It is a limited edition of 25 copies only hence if anyone is interested, please do contact Mr Ademar Baptista via their website: http://www.filoceano.com
Sad News
It is with great sadness that we have learned our dear member Alun Southwood has passed away on friday 16th September 2011. He was 78. Alun was not keeping too well recently and suffered a fatal heart attack whilst in hospital. His wife Aileen has informed our Hon Secretary John Swan that the funeral is due to tatke place this wednesday.
Alun and Aileen have just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last week. Alun has been a staunch PPS member eversince he joined the society and he has been responsible for the successful revival of the circulation of the packet amongst society members.
May his soul rest in eternal peace.
Alun Southwood (1933 - 2011)
MIDPEX 2011: 2nd July 2011
This great one day philatelic event was recently organized by the ABPS at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre in the midlands. This year's venue proved to be a hit with both dealers and visitors, mainly due to its improved layout arrangements. The PPS was one of the Philatelic Societies invited for the show and we had our own table and a couple of display boards as well. Members attending held a meeting towards the end of the show, the main topics of discussion being the forthcomming 50th AGM arrangements at Porto, reported by Roger Lawson.
We ended up the day sipping a nice dring at the Fallstaff hotel and appreciating each others philatelic purchases for the day.
PPS AGM 2011: 18-20th March 2011
This year's Annual General Meeting related activities of the PPS was held between the 18th and 20th March 2011 at the Best Western Falstaff Hotel, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. As usual, the event was well attended by members from different parts of the globe. It was a very enjoyable weekend full of elections - that saw a new president, auction of great material, competitions, displays, etc.
First Row: 1. Hon President and Hon Secretary table 2. Audience 3. Dave McIntyre presenting the Packet report 4. Outgoing Hon. President Don Woodley passing on the medal to the newly elected PPS President Prof Isabel Vieira
Second Row: 5.Hon PPS President Prof Isabel Vieira addresses the AGM 6. Dave's Portuguese India presentation 7. Tom Poynton with Portugal in WWI 8. Maurice Taylor with his Madeira Ceres plate proofs
Third Row: 9.Society Cup winner exhibit 'WWI - The POW Camp of Angra do Heroismo, Azores 10. Members discuss exhibits 11.Our auctioneers Roger Lawson and Dave Davies in action! 12. Stunning 1881complete sheet of Portuguese India natives stamps
Foutht Row: 13. Literature prize award won by Inácio Miranda(Portugal) being received by Hal Reynolds (USA) 14. Urwick prize winner (traditional philately) Francis Rodrigues (UK) 15. Society Cup winners (Postal History) Dr Luis & Dr Eduardo Barreiros (Portugal) 16. A table at the PPS gala dinner
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Portugal 2010 World Philatelic Exhibition - 1st to 10th October 2010
From JP Cota
Thursday November 18, 2010
Many members of the PPS and sister societies KPS (Holland) and ISPP (USA) attended this great event. PPS member Ron van der Holt and KPS member Frits Beekum kindly contributed the images below (please click on thumbnails for expanded images):
1st row : PPS & KPS meembers 'chill out'; Portugal 2010 exhibition area and stands
2nd row: PPS members enjoy their gala dinner, superbly organized by PPS member Roger Lawson
3rd row: Geographical Society room where a protrait of young King Dom Luis hangs , also displaying the thrones where the King and Queen of Portugal sat.
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Annual Summer meeting- Sunday 27th June 2010
From JP Cota
Thursday July 7, 2010
The PPS's Annual Summer Meeting was held recently at Avon Bassett, yet again at Leslye's residence. It was well attended but the England - Germany match did 'disturb' planned events. But it was a most enjoyable hot summer day. Photos shall follow very soon. Please watch this space!
Philatelic curiosities
From JP Cota
Friday June 24, 2009
What kind of stamp collector are you? Please take a minute to reflect, then click on the image on the left to test yourself as a philatelist!
Really interesting article from Stamp & Coin Mart - you will be surprised at the result!
A big Thank You to Matt Hill, Stamp & Coin editor, for uploading this great article on their website and giving us the link!.
BUILD YOUR OWN FREE STAMP ALBUM PAGES!
By João Paulo Cota
Friday September 19, 2008
www.Stamps.About.com
I was just browsing the net for philatelic related material, when I came across this rather interesting website containing immense referenceinformation about philately. I have tried a couple of quadrille page templates they have stored as pdf files and although they were originally designed for younger collectors, they are not bad at all for just anyone! So, if you have some spare time, some spare printing cartridges and of course some spare paper, please try them on! Please use this link for the Templates . There is plenty of other interesting reading material too on the home page - please see website link above.
If you know about any intersting website link that you would like to share with other PPS members, please do let me know and I shall place it on our website.
FORGERIES OF PORTUGAL AND COLONIES BOOK
This great book on the forgeries of Portugal and its ex-colonies was authored by renowned Britsh philatelist and PPS member, Ret Capt Dave Davies and was published by our very own Portuguese Philatelic Society. This book has 137 pp and is well illustrated with superb coloured scans, sketches and well researched text. A masterpiece on the rich Portuguese philately we all love! Available directly from the author himself. Please send us an email if you are interested. We can accept payments in Euros, GBP and US$ both in cash or cheques. Please inquire for any specific queries. Price is GBP 30 (Eur 40 or US$50) plus shipping to your address.
PORTUGUESE COLONIAL WAR BOOK PUBLISHED IN PORTUGAL
A new philatelic book was recently published in Portugal by the distinguished Portuguese Military Postal Historians, twin brothers Drs. Eduardo and Luis Barreiros. The book, "GUERRA COLONIAL 1961 - 1974: HISTÓRIA DO SERVIÇO POSTAL MILITAR" (Colonial War 1961 - 1974: History of the Military Postal Service) has superb in-depth and well researched information on the Colonial War History of its ex-colonies and is profusely illustrated with high quality images of real photographs and scans of postal history items, some of them very rare that belong to the author's collection. The book has about 400 pages that deals with the postal history of the Portuguese colonial war in high deatail, its postal services, cancels, civilian movements and the mail transport. It also lists all the aerogramme types used in colonial military mail, this being the first attemp by anyone to produce one such catalogue of military related aerogrammes. Both authors are active members of the Portuguese Philatelic Society, UK, and they can both be contacted via email regarding any queries or availability of this book.
