Postage stamps and postal history of Brazil the "slanted numeral" series. Subsequent stamps were in a similar format until the first pictorial stamps were issued in 1866 depicting Emperor Dom Pedro II In 1866 the emperor was represented on all issues until 1884, first with a black beard. For many years stamps from Brazil had Brasil Correio displayed on them. However today the trend is to just have the country name and year, e.g. Brasil 2000. 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
Postage stamps of the Soviet Union Postage stamps of the Soviet Union Stamps of the Soviet Union were issued in the period 1923 to 1991. They were labeled with the inscription ("Post of the USSR"). In the thematics, Soviet stamps reflected to a large extent the history, politics, economics and culture of this world's first socialist state. Notable designers of Soviet postage stamps were Ivan Dubasov (who designed the , the first stamps portraying Vladimir Lenin in 1924) and . By the mid 1970s, over 4,000 stamps came out in the USSR. In 1970, the "Catalogue of Postage Stamps of the USSR, 1918–1969" was published in