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The Southern Association of Sheep Breeders organised the largest agricultural fair held in Beja (Portugal) from 26th April to 4th May 2008.

For more details please click here.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of this Fair they issued one personalized stamp (picture bellow)


The Portuguese Postal Office issued a Postal Stationery valid inside Portugal:

Thank you Rosendo (Portugal) for sending me all this great philatelic items.

Portugal... MY STAMP!

Started yesterday 9th Oct. 2007 a new amazing service provided by the Portuguese Postal Office... But what service is that?

They call it MY STAMP and it's the 1st personalized stamp service in Portugal! But what makes it so amazing? Well... nothing really... it's very similar to many others that we know about from around the world and in my opinion it comes rather late comparing to other European countries.

But why would someone need this kind of stamps? Trusting PO publicity you should use them to free your creativity and make new stamps at your image... Well at 1 Euro per stamp with a postage value of 0.30 Euro it's an expensive creativity, wouldn't you say? But I think it can be very nice to a topic collector to make some stamps about designs that are worldwide unavailable in the topic he collects, don't you?

Dear readers... does your country makes these? Do you collect them? And if so why?

And another interesting question... do you think I should order some? On which topic? You can even send me images with your own ideas... I'll be waiting!

Thank you all!