COVER N. 720 - BRASIL

Postmark: Londrina PR 08.05.2026

Posted on the 8th May;  Received on the 26th May 2026

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Always a pleasure to receive mail from Brazil (or Brasil as I rather write it) and this week I got two covers from our brother country. Here's the first one,  Muito Obrigado Luis Carlos!

- Brasil first participated in the Summer Olympic Games in the Games of the VII Olympiad, which took place in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920.

It was a double first, for this was also the occasion for Brazil winning its first  Olympic Gold Medal, a feat carried out by Lieutenant Guilherme Paraense in the men's 30 metre military pistol contest.

100 hundred years past, Correios do Brasil celebrated the relevant anniversary by issuing, on 24NOV2020) a circular golden 5 reais stamp replicating a gold medal illustrated with a shooting target and laurel leaves, and the legend Centenário da 1ª Medalha de Ouro do Brasil em Jogos Olímpicos (Centenary of the First Gold Medal of Brazil in the Olympic Games).

- The 2024 Mercosul common theme issue highlighted the profession of Chef. Brasil Issued, on 13MAY2024, a 4.3 Reais stamp illustrated with two chefs in the working attire with the legend  Série mercosul: Profissão - Chef (Mercosul Issue - Profession - Chef).

- Union Postale Universelle UPU celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2024 and many were the postal administrations that issued one or more stamps celebrating this fact. Brasil's issue comprised a single 5.95 reais stamp, issued on 09OCT2024, illustrated with the official logo for the celebrations, as was the case with many other issues from other postal administrations all over the world.

Postmark from Londrina, a city with about 580.000 inhabitants in the state of Paraná, in the South of Brasil.