Brazil 1930 – Columns and Southern
Cross
Described in the Gibbons catalogue as
“Architrave and Southern Cross”, this stamp is the
highest-value member of a set of three issued by Brazil in 1930
to commemorate the Fourth Pan-American Architectural Congress.
Next to a pair of ancient pillars it shows the Southern Cross
in the sky above Sugar-loaf mountain, complete with off-centre
fifth star. There is a blunder, though – the cross is a
mirror image of the real constellation, a fact given away by
the fifth star’s positioning. This same mistake recurs in
a Brazil stamp of 1940. Incidentally, the lowest-value member
of the set, SG 487, shows a sunrise over the sea near
Sugar-loaf Mountain, but it is too stylized to qualify as a
true astro stamp.
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