Bidspirit auction | FILGUEIRAS (Octávio Lixa). TRAINEIRAS. Lisboa.

FILGUEIRAS (Octávio Lixa). TRAINEIRAS. Lisboa. 1994. - FILGUEIRAS (Octávio Lixa) TRAINEIRAS . Fotógrafo convidado João Menéres. Lisboa: CTT Correios, 1994. 132, [12] pp.: il., com selos; 245 mm. A profusely illustrated album with photographs by João Menéres and drawings of fishing boats from the Portuguese coast, in a bilingual edition (Portuguese and English), part of the series of publications from the Postal Service Collector's Club published in connection with the thematic issues of postage stamps from CTT (Portuguese Post Office). The work documents the trawler as a fishing vessel and as part of Portuguese naval ethnological heritage, in a monograph that brings together text and iconography about the vessels of the Portuguese coast. The opening text is by José Augusto Perestrello de Alarcão Troni. The philatelic issue includes 8 stamps and a color proof printed and numbered by the Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (National Mint). One of the rarest and most sought-after volumes in the CTT collection. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate