S.g. Portugal & Spain Catalog

Hi. I'm new here. I'm hoping someone can help me with the following.

I am trying to put together a specialty collection of Portugal and Portuguese Colonies issues of the Ceres stamps (Scott Portugal Type A64,A85 & A99)(S.G Type 56 & Type 79).

Scott does a very poor job in it's listings for these issues. There are perforation and paper differences which Scott does not specify. Stanley Gibbons in their Part 9 catalog for Portugal & Spain does a much better job.

A couple of years ago I obtained from the APS Research Library, Xerox copies of the S.G. pages for these issues. Unfortunately, they left out one or two pages. I need the S.G. pages for the 1928 and 1929 issues. If you have this catalog (Any year as I am not interested in the values) would it be possible to get a scan of the appropriate pages sent to me as an attachment to an email sent to: RonMerchant45@yahoo.com?

Thanks for any help.

The reason Scott does not get into that much detail is because they don't specialize into all the nuances of each and every stamp,they are used on the Worldwide side as a means to identify year and design. The Specialized catalogs will always be better when pertaining to 1 area as to where Scotts would be 32 Volumes if they tried to tackle every variety of every Stamp world wide. Did you check all the information that Scott's listed ? A64, A85 & A99 sound like illustration numbers, not catalog numbers. I'm not in front of mine now but I'll check later when I get in front of them.

Stallzer--I have been collecting stamps since 1952 and I am fully aware of why Scott does not list everything. However, Scott does an even worse job on the Ceres stamps than usual. They group 2 or 3 perforations sizes with no indication as to which stamps have which perforation, into one list. The only acknowledgement is showing all the different perforation sizes at the top of the listing (See Portugal 453-489).

Yes, A64, A85 & A99 are design numbers. I used those in my first post to indicate exactly which types of stamps I was referring to instead of Scott numbers as there are many stamps of each of these designs.

Thank you for the reply. Do you have the Stanley Gibbons catalog?

Sorry as I must have misunderstood your post.From 1912 - 1931 Portugal released 92 different Ceres Stamps, yes you would certainly need a Specialized catalog. I'm not too sure what the specialist catalog is for Portugal.

Hi stallzer,

The SG Foreign catalogues (Parts 2 to 22) aren't really "specialised"; they're just the foreign parts of the main SG catalogue as opposed to the "simplified" SG Stamps of the World catalogue which only lists face different stamps.

The domestic Portuguese catalogue is published by AFINSA. It is well detailed, but in Portuguese only. It will need some Google translation (or native language capabilities) to get the most out of it. For example, the 1912 Ceres listing is broken into 13 different paper / perforation types, the 1917-1920 Ceres listing is broken into 10 different paper / perforation types (in my 2006 edition, that is).

http://veratrinder.org/portugal-afi...8111399.html

Ryan

Ryan--I just got a copy of the 2011 Afinsa Catalogs for Portugal and Colonies. Your right about how detailed it is. I was aware of the Afinsa Portugal Specialized catalogs before, but had never seen a copy. They are exactly what I wanted for detail on the Ceres stamps. The S.G. catalog is a big improvement over Scott, but, of course, the Afinsa catalog is even better. I have not had time to study them in detail yet, but but a quick look at them shows that I can figure out most of what I need even if it is in Portuguese. There is always Google Translate for any words I can't decipher.

If anyone could scan them for me, I would still like to have the couple of missing pages from the S.G. Pt. 9 catalog covering the Portugal 1928-1931 issues.