Portugal Nineteenth century specialized used collection in Stanley Gibbons Devon binder with quadrille pages, this collection includes all the imperforate issues and the next two perforated issues to 1884 through Scott 51, there is at least one example of each Scott number except #20, however most are collected with several examples of each with a total of 376 stamps present, virtually all are used with only six mint and nine unused stamps, the scarce first issue is complete with two example 100r Lilac high value, the numerous copies that are collected for the subsequent issues show the many shades of which Scott only lists a few, there are lots of different cancels, plus different types and varieties often unlisted by Scott, the last 1870-84 issue is collected in the various perforations on both plain paper and enamel surfaced paper, condition is quite nice for this early 19th century period with very few faults, overall fine -very fine and a wonderful study of the classics of Portugal; Scott catalog is in excess of $30,000.00.

Est. $3,000-4,000