Portuguese
India stamps
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Portuguese India
was the aggregate of Portugal's colonial
holdings in India. At the time of India's independence in
1947, Portuguese India included a number of enclaves on India's western coast,
including Goa proper, as well as the coastal enclaves of Daman and Diu, and the
enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which lie inland from Daman. The
territories of Portuguese India were sometimes referred to collectively as Goa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India
Scott: #520-1O
Issued: 25.10.1952
400th Death Anniversary of St. Francis Xavier
Inside #520-1: Portuguese India #464O/#476O (B)
Scott: #521aO
See: Saint Francis Xavier, SJ (1506-1552) - Patron Saint of
Missions
http://www.manresa-sj.org/stamps/1_Xavier.htm
Scott: #522-3O
Issued: 4.12.1952
Goa Stamp Exhibition
Inside #522: Portuguese
India #1O
http://www.filatelicamente.online.pt/l001/l001_06i.html
Inside #523: Portuguese India #464O/#476O (B)
Scott: #523aO
The first
postage stamps of Portuguese India were issued 1 October 1871. These were purely
local, and stamps of British India were also needed for overseas mail. The
design of these first stamps simply consisted of a denomination in the center,
with an oval band containing the inscriptions "SERVICO POSTAL" and
"INDIA POST". The dies were recut several times, and printed on
several kinds of paper, resulting in an extremely complicated situation that
has been intensively studied; about 55 types have been identified as appearing
between 1871 and 1877, some of them quite rare. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/po/portuguese_india.htm
Scott: #527O
Issued: 3.10.1953
Centenary of Portuguese Stamps
Inside #527:
Portugal #1O
