First Flight Across the South Atlantic from Portugal to Brazil

On this Brazilian cover from Palmeira dos Índios are a set of stamps from 2022 that commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first flight across the South Atlantic Ocean. In 1922 Portuguese aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral used three different float planes to hop to the Brazilian coast from Lisbon via the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and Fernando de Noronha.

Brazil - Romania Joint Issue from 2015

The pair of Brazilian stamps at the top is from 2015 and is a joint issue between Brazil and Romania. Each stamp features a sculpture of the biblical character "Eve" with Brazilian Victor Brecheret's interpretation on the left and Romanian Gheorghe Leonida's interpretation on the right. Below that is a 2002 stamp from a souvenir sheet that brings attention to the environmental protection area for the Southern Right Whale. Unlike their northern Atlantic cousins, the southern right whales are not endangered. 

A big one from Brazil

From the Brazilian city of Caxias do Sul. The block at the top from 2001 is a WWF issue showcasing Brazil's endemic parrots. And the block below that also from 2001 features old Brazilian automobiles. The little 2005 definitive on the left depicts a showshiner.

Tribute to the Real Plan, Rio de Janeiro

From left to right on this cover from Rio are a 2003 stamp depicting the Marcantonio Vilaça Cultural Space in Brasília which is the headquarters of Brazil's Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU): their federal audit office, a 2021 Christmas stamp, and a 2024 souvenir sheet commemorating the monetary reforms of 1994 which stabilized Brazil's economy.

Celestial Bodies in Our Solar System from Florianópolis, Brazil

I've received a few covers from Brazil now with solar system stamps on them and with this one I have now received a complete set. The stamps were issued in 2020 as a sheet of nine. On this cover are the Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury (the one I was missing) and Uranus.
 

Beneficial Insects of Brazil

A cover from Porto Alegre, Brazil: the capital of Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul. This block of stamps is from a set of six from 2021 with the artwork in each stamp representing a group of beneficial insects. On these stamps are dung beetles, praying mantis and parasitic wasps.

More Solar System stamps from Brazil

This is the third cover I've received from Brazil with solar system stamps on it. I think I'm one short of a whole sheet. On these stamps are Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. And in the label are asteroids Ceres and Hijra.

Unconventional Food Plants from Brazil

Three stamps from a 2024 set of six featuring unconventional food plants. Plantas alimentícias não convencionais (PANC) is a Brazilian movement that promotes propagating and foraging for unconventional food plants. Unconventional in this case meaning local (to Brazil) and not mainstream. These are plants you are more likely to find in a backyard garden, a market or a forest and not in a large grocery store. The examples on these stamps are mangarito (a tuber), Barbados gooseberry and malabar spinach.

Brazil and the Solar System

More 2020 solar system stamps from Brazil. From left to right: the sun, Venus and Jupiter.

Florianopolis, Brazil

This cover from the Brazilian coastal city of Florianopolis comes to me with three stamps from a sheet of nine from 2020 that feature celestial bodies from our solar system. From left to right, the Sun, Earth and Mars. It's hard to see but the dark lines in the stamps that trace the paths of the planets around the sun are highlighted with a varnish. 

Brazil: Diplomatic Relations with Argentina

A cover with Brazilian stamps featuring Argentinian comic strip character Mafalda; a middle-class progressive six year old who continuously expresses concern about humanity and world peace. The comic strip was published between 1964 and 1973.

The Fashion Industry in Brazil

A set of 2020 stamps from Brazil highlighting the fashion industry. From left to right: Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, designs by Brazilian fashion artist Filipe Jardim and a camera owned by Brazilian photographer Bob Wolfenson.

180th Anniversary of the Brazilian Bull's Eye Stamps

The first postage stamps issued by Brazil on the 1st of August, 1843, had the appearance of bull's eyes. This was the second non-local stamp issue in the world with the first being the Penny Black in 1940. These 2023 stamps commemorate the 180th anniversary of the Bull's Eye stamps as part of the UPAEP joint issue for which this years theme is philately and postage stamps.

Centenary of the First South Atlantic Air Crossing, Brazil

A cover from Palmeira dos Índios: a city of 70000 in the interior of the state of Alagoas. The stamps  were issued by Correios Brazil in 2022 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Atlantic air crossing from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro during March 30 to June 17, 1922. 

Christmas in Brazil

Christmas angels on a 2009 souvenir sheet from Brazil.

Brazilian Anurans

Anurans: frogs and toads. These three stamps are from a set of five issued in Brazil in 2021. From top to bottom: a Striped tree frog, a Manaus slender-legged tree frog, and a Monkey tree frog.

Beneficial Insects of Brazil

Three stamps from a set of six issued by Correios in December of 2021. Each stamp represents a group of beneficial insects using watercolour and coloured pencil artwork. From top to bottom: bees, dragonflies and praying mantis.

John Lennon in New York from Brazil

John Lennon stamps from Brazil featuring an apparently well-known photo of Lennon taken by rock photographer Bob Gruen in 1974. The stamps were issued in January of 2021 to correspond with an exhibition at the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo featuring photos of Lennon from Gruen's 2005 book "John Lennon: The New York Years".

Brazil: Centenary of the Discovery of Insulin

The blue circle on the envelope and in the middle of the stamp is the universal symbol for diabetes which I did not know before now. This is the first Brazilian stamp to feature a QR code.

Cheese from Brazil

A selection of cheeses from Brazil. From left to right, top to bottom: butter cheese, artisanal cheese from Minas, artisanal cheese from São Paulo, cabacinha cheese from Araguaia, cheese from the region of Diamante and artisanal serrano cheese.