The Ceres Issue (1912-1949) - Portugal & Colonies

Just by the way, concerning the Ceres issue, I have a album-related question. I use Scott, like most Americans I think, and resort to other catalogs only when necessary...which happens....    Scott screwed up the listing for the Ceres issue big time, and then at some point (not sure when) it fixed its error by renumbering the items, having awkwardly to add lots of letters to include items it formerly missed. Alas, the Scott speciality album made before the correction is also screwed up, lacking spaces for many current numbers--like the difference between chalky and ordinary paper, and also between perf varieties of the ordinary paper in several cases. I assume that if one were to buy a Scott specialty album for Portugal today the pages would properly match the corrected catalog. Right?  I'd like to have these corrected pages, but I don't want to buy a lot of pages I don't need, and I certainly don't want to go through the trouble to remount a lot of stuff beyond just what is needed to get the Ceres issue displayed correctly.  Now, I could call Amos Hobby and ask if they sell just the corrected pages for the Ceres issue, but knowing Scott I'm pretty sure the answer is no. That leaves me with the option of making my own pages just for this issue. Am I thinking about this accurately?  Is my choice really between buying new Scott specialty album pages, the vast majority of which I don't want, or making my own pages for just this issue? Or maybe buying a cheap collection with the right pages just to get the pages, and then re-sell the stamps?  Anyone have some useful advice for me, perhaps?

I couldn't remember how I came to the conclusion that the stamps were forgeries (one stamp I think is genuine).
You can find very good information on the website "www.inverso.pt/portugal/Index.htm"

Of all the clichés that can be found on the various Portuguese Ceres issues, this one has to be a favourite of mine,

As for the overprints, I have not seen any reference to these being falsified, especially on the lower values...


Have fun and happy collecting!

Thanks for your post, Stan (stainlessb).... it's a nice stamp.

If you scroll back up in the thread to Vince's (stanley64) post from 28-Apr, he wrote:
I can clearly see the dots or small diamonds in the paper from your scan, so I think that would indicate that your stamp is probably genuine, but let's see if Vince, who really knows this material, will respond to the tag and give us a confirmation.....

It's a good point, Stan (stainlessb), but again, if you look back through the thread at the previous images, I think that the instance where the R and T are not touching is for the Portuguese colonial issue with the country name as a fill-in-the-blank space, rather than the issue from the mother country, which yours is.

Take a look at the post from gstamps, which is for overprinted Ceres from Portugal, rather than the colonial issue.  The R and T are touching in his, and they also have the dotted paper.  Again, I have no expertise in this area, but I think that the signs point to your example being genuine.

stainlessb, I'm not sure but I think the "anneau de la lune" is due to the sticking of the pieces of paper coming from the perforation on the plate.
One of the conditions is that the diameter of the "anneau de la lune" is at least equal to the diameter of the perforation holes.

gstamps I had not heard this definition before (in fact when I first  came across this in my Maury Ceres & Dallay i had to post a question here to find out what it was in reference to!