Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Po–Pz)
Each "article" in this category is a collection of entries about several stamp issuers, presented in alphabetical order. The entries are formulated on the micro model and so provide summary information about all known issuers.
See the Category:Compendium of postage stamp issuers page for details of the project.
Poland edit
- Dates
- 1918 –
- Capital
- Warsaw
- Currency
- (1918) 100 fenigs = 1 mark
- (1918) 100 hellers = 1 crown
- (1924) 100 groszy = 1 zloty
- Main Article Needed
- Includes
- Poland (Russian Province)
Poland (German Occupation WWI) edit
Poland (German Occupation WWII) edit
Poland (Russian Province) edit
- Dates
- 1860 – 1863
- Capital
- Warsaw
- Currency
- 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
- Refer
- Poland
Polish Army in Russia edit
- Dates
- 1942 only
- Currency
- 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
- Refer
- Polish Post Abroad
Polish Corps in Russia edit
- Dates
- 1918 only
- Currency
- 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
- Refer
- Polish Post Abroad
Polish Government in Exile edit
- Refer
- Polish Post Abroad
Polish Military Post edit
Polish Occupation Issues edit
- Refer
- Polish Post Abroad
Polish Post Abroad edit
- Main Article Needed
Polska edit
- Refer
- Poland
Pondicherry edit
Ponta Delgada edit
- Refer
- Azores Territories
Poonch edit
- Refer
- Indian Native States
Port Arthur & Dairen edit
- Refer
- CPR Regional Issues
Port Gdansk edit
Port Lagos (French Post Office) edit
French PO in Thrace when under Turkish rule. Issued French stamps overprinted PORT-LAGOS. The office closed in 1898. Port Lagos is a seaport in Western Thrace which now belongs to Greece.
Port Said (French Post Office) edit
Portugal edit
- Dates
- 1853 –
- Capital
- Lisbon
- Currency
- (1853) 1000 reis = 1 milreis
- (1912) 100 centavos = 1 escudo
- (2002) 100 cent = 1 euro
- Main Article Needed
Portuguese Africa edit
Portuguese Congo edit
- Dates
- 1894 – 1920
- Capital
- Cabinda
- Currency
- (1894) 1000 reis = 1 milreis
- (1912) 100 centavos = 1 escudo
- Main Article Needed
- See also
- Africa (Portuguese Colonies)
Portuguese Guinea edit
- Dates
- 1881 – 1974
- Capital
- Bissau
- Currency
- (1881) 1000 reis = 1 milreis
- (1912) 100 centavos = 1 escudo
- Main Article Needed
- See also
- Africa (Portuguese Colonies);
- Guinea–Bissau
Portuguese India edit
Portugal sought territory in India after Vasco da Gama's successful voyage round the Cape of Good Hope in 1497–1498. The three enclaves of Goa (1505), Damao (1531) and Diu (1534) were annexed to collectively form the colony of Portuguese India.
Goa, including the capital Pangim (now Panaji), is on the Malabar Coast of SW India, roughly midway between Bombay and Bangalore. Damao (now called Daman) is on the west coast, at the entrance to the Gulf of Cambay, about 100 miles north of Bombay. Diu, which includes the towns of Diu and Simbor, is a small island (15 sq. miles) off the south coast of Kathiawar peninsula in western India.
The first stamps were issued 1 October 1871. Stamps of British India were also valid until 1877. Standard Portuguese types such as the Ceres issue were used until 1925 when specific types began to be produced. All stamps were inscribed INDIA in some way; from 1946, the inscription was usually ESTADO DA INDIA.
In 1950, newly independent India demanded the transfer of the Portuguese territories but Portugal refused. India set up a land blockade in 1954 and then annexed the territories on 17 December 1961. Stamps of India were introduced on 29 December 1961.
Goa became a State of India in 1987 while Daman and Diu (combined) is a Union Territory.
Portuguese Occupation of German East Africa edit
Portuguese Timor edit
- Refer
- Timor
Preussen edit
- Refer
- Prussia
Priamur & Maritime Provinces edit
- Dates
- 1921 – 1922
- Capital
- Vladivostok
- Currency
- 100 kopecks = 1 Russian ruble
- Refer
- Russian Civil War Issues
Prince Edward Island edit
- Dates
- 1861 – 1873
- Capital
- Charlottetown
- Currency
- (1861) 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound
- (1872) 100 cents = 1 dollar
- Refer
- Canadian Provinces
Protectorat Français edit
Prussia edit
- Dates
- 1850 – 1867
- Capital
- Berlin
- Currency
- (1850) 12 pfennige = 1 silbergroschen; 30 silbergroschen = 1 thaler
- (1867) 60 kreuzer = 1 gulden
- Main Article Needed
- See also
- Germany (Imperial);
- North German Confederation
Puerto Rico edit
- Dates
- 1873 – 1900
- Capital
- San Juan
- Currency
- (1873) 100 centimos = 1 peseta
- (1881) 1000 milesimas = 100 centavos = 1 peso
- (1898) 100 cents = 1 dollar
- Main Article Needed
- See also
- Cuba & Puerto Rico
Pulau Pinang edit
- Refer
- Penang
Puttiala edit
- Refer
- Patiala
References edit
Bibliography edit
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Europe and Colonies 1970, Stanley Gibbons Ltd, 1969
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues
- Stuart Rossiter & John Flower, The Stamp Atlas, W H Smith, 1989
- XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960