About Me

My goal is to provide useful info for collectors, novice and advanced alike.

RadicalBuy

When I first read about RadicalBuy about one week ago I must confess I was skeptical! Selling stuff trough Facebook !? What a strange idea! But I has curious enough to visit their site and I was immediately attracted by the professional look of the...

Stampfiles

I'm Stampfiles at eBay and Stampsandpostcards at Delcampe I collect stamps, postal history, postcards and other paper ephemera, mainly from Portugal and portuguese former colonies. I'm in eBay since 1998 and for many years I was only a buyer. In 2...

Philately - Angola stamps

This lens is dedicated to Angola stamps after independence. Former portuguese colony, Angola issued is first stamp as independent nation in 1975. From there until the end of 2004 Angola issued 1144 different stamps, according the Specialized Stamp Ca...

Philately - PALOP stamps

Altough this initials can be puzzling for some stamp collectors PALOP means Paises Africanos de Lingua Oficial Portuguesa, i.e, Portuguese Speaking African Countries. So, PALOP stamps are the stamps issued by the portuguese african colonies after ind...

Philately - Portugal & colonies stamps

Portugal issued its first stamps in 1853. Our goal is to provide some useful info and links about Portugal & colonies stamps.