Brazil, 1922 (100 réis, Ypiranga)
Riders on horseback raising swords by a stream.
Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
BRASIL CORREIO across the top.
- 1BRASIL CORREIO
- 2YPIRANGA
- 3CENTENARIO · 100 REIS · 1822-1922
- Inscription
- BRASIL CORREIO · YPIRANGA · CENTENARIO · 100 REIS · 1822-1922
- Meaning
- Ypiranga is the stream near São Paulo where independence was declared; CENTENARIO is centenary.
- Issued by
- Brazil (United States of Brazil)
- Today
- Brazil Flag of Brazil
- Year
- 1922. Issued 7 September 1922 for the centenary of independence.
- Made by
- Brazil postal administration (official publishing administration); Unknown individual stamp designer (designer); Waterlow & Sons, London (printing organisation); Pedro Américo (underlying painting artist, died 1905)
One fact
The scene follows Pedro Américo’s painting “Independence or Death”, made for the Museu Paulista in São Paulo.
Source and public-domain rule
Brazil, government publication before the 1998 law. A government stamp published 1922; also, the painter of the scene, Pedro Américo, died in 1905. The Commons file carries only PD-US. Under the Civil Code of 1916 (Art. 662) and Law 5988 of 1973 (Art. 46), works published by the Brazilian government fell into the public domain 15 years after publication. Government stamps published before 1983 had done so before the 1998 Copyright Law repealed those rules, which did not revive expired works. Legal sources: Lei 3.071 de 1916 (Civil Code), Art. 662, Lei 5.988 de 1973, Art. 46.
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