Postage stamps and postal history of Brazil Postage stamps and postal history of Brazil Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. It was a colony of Portugal from 1500 until 1815. Brazil was the second country in the world, after Great Britain, to issue postage stamps valid within the entire country (as opposed to a local issue). Like Great Britain's first stamps, the design does not include the country name. The first stamps of Brazil were issued on 1 August 1843 and are known as "Bull's Eyes" due to their distinctive appearance. On 1 July 1844 a new series was issued which is known as
Tintin postage stamps was released in September 1999. Each showed a scene from the book "Explorers on the Moon". A one-off stamp and a minisheet was released on March 11, 2000. In 2007, a set of six stamps, each depicting one of the characters - Tintin and Snowy, Professor Calculus, Captain Haddock, Thomson and Thompson, Bianca Castafiore and Chang. A minisheet comprising all the six stamps was issued along with the stamps. A joint issue from the two countries depicted the two book covers of "Tintin in the Congo". Tintin coins Tintin postage stamps This is a list of postage stamps, released in