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Colectalia is a philately and auction house specialized in the Spanish civil war (1936-1939).
This is the right place to start collecting this subject, to enhance your collection or to add value to it with extremely rare and hard to find pieces.
We have a wide fixed price sale list, and we organize auctions.
We also offer a Roman coin section, under the brand Colectalia Coins
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Oxid stains on the gum.
Generalitat de Catalunya, Consell de Sanitat de Guerra, 1937, n/v, GG2135, MH
Cover from the Front to Barcelona with mark "Republica Española 140 Brigada Mixta Zapadores" in violet. Stamp lacking. With content dated on November 21, 1938.
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Field post mark from Bujaraloz to Barcelona with censor mark "Columna Durruti / Frente Bujaraloz / Censura"in red, Apollaro nr 91 (Histoire Postale de la guerre civile d'Espagne) and Heller page 33 (La historia y el servicio postal de las Brigadas Internacionales). Dated on 31 Aug 1937. Very rare.
Denia, Asistencia Social, 5c black on red, Allepuz 23a, MH
Cover with English and French letterhead "International Commission for the Assistance of Child Refugees in Spain" / "Commission Internationale d'Aide aux Enfants Réfugiés en Espagne". Paris postmark dated on March 24, 1939. Sent via Manhattan Sailing. Sent to Margaret L. Kenshner.
Censor mark of the prison "CENSURADA"
Cover from Iznalloz (Granada) to Antonio Jaimez Jiménez, Base 1a, C.C. Nº 1, E.M., Carteria Militar B. Postmark "ESTAFETA / CAMPAÑA / FRENTE DE GRANDA / CORREOS". Unlisted trilingual censor mark on tbe back, in Spanish, French and English: "CENSURADA / SED BREVES / SOYEZ CONCIS - BE BRIEF".
Cover from Guareña (Badajoz) to Paris, France, with unlisted censor mark "CENSURA MILITAR / GUAREÑA" in red. Paris arrival backstamp. Very rare.
What makes this lot exceptionall are the dried plants inside, picked up at the Front and preserved in the covers since 1937.
Amigos del Partido Comunista en España, Dolores Ibárruri, 2 francs, 1945, Allepuz 506, MNH
