PROTUGAL and HONGKONG STAMP Collection

The early issues from 1853 had the monarch's head, white and featureless, embossed on a colored background. The most valuable stamps from this period are Gibbons catalog nos 8 and 9 from the 1853 issue: the 100 reis lilacs.
The first pictorial issue in 1894 commemorated the 500th anniversary of Henry the Navigator's birth. Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in 1497-1498 was the subject of an 1898 issue. The Vasco da Gama designs were also used in the African colonies and were inscribed in Africa instead of Portugal. This was the only general issue for colonies.
The 1910 definitives were overprinted Republica after the revolution and the first republican issue was the familiar Ceres type of 1912.
Airplanes were first depicted in 1923 following the Gago Coutinho-Sacadura Cabral flight from Portugal to Brazil in 1922. In 1924, the first literary issue commemorated the birth of epic poet, Luís de Camões, in 1524.
The common Caravel type first appeared in 1943, the Medieval Knight in 1953, and Portugal's first railway stamp in 1956.
Volumes increased from the 1960s.
The Hong Kong Philatelic Society was established in 1921 and is the oldest philatelic organization in Hong Kong. Members were mainly Europeans before the war and after 1946, more and more Chinese became members and the Society has grown in stature. Currently, the Society has over 350 local and overseas members.
Formed to promote philatelic activities in Hong Kong, the Society once contributed a column in the South China Morning Post in the 1930s reporting on both local and foreign philatelic activities and developments. In the 1960s, it began holding open competitive exhibitions locally and published a monthly newsletter.

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