Good Europe set comprising 2 albums. One dedicated to Finland and the other to Spain since the 1st issues. The stamps are mainly cancelled but there are more mint stamps in the 'fine catalogs' as well as in the colonies (Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico...), a few pages are devoted to Portugal at the end of this album. Attached are 3 interesting letters. The 1st is franked with 1 pair of 2p blue British postmarks from Nader (Gozo Island) to Philippeville (Algeria, arrival 12/11/1854). The 2nd includes 6 "20c bleu" from Belgium, King Leopold I, imperforated, including 1 strip of 5 addressed to Mr. Pallière, Captain of the Engineers and "1st Painter to His Majesty King Joao VI in Bordeaux, departing from Ghent in December 1856, handwritten "Diploma of the Grand Prix de la peinture de Gand". And finally, a postcard from Switzerland on June 21, 1940, with a Red Cross postmark "internment de militaire français en suisse griffe" Franchise de Port Belligérant interné and a handwritten note "soldat français interné en Suisse".