Especials
Especials
Especials
Cover to France with sender "Bernardo García Pérez (servicio sanitario) / Plaza Altozano nº 490 / Base postal militar nº 6/ España" and censor mark Heller 6 and E de C B Movil postmark dated on October 1, 1938 on the back. Unreadable postmark on the front.
Zaragoza, complete set Allepuz 20 & 21 with double printing, one inverted and displaced. 5c chesnut is listed under Allepuz 19eda, but the 10c blue is only listed with inverted double printing but not displaced (Allepuz 20ed). MNH
Sevilla, Falange souvenir sheet Allepuz 186 with blue colour of the arrows displaced down. Allepuz lists a similar variety with colour displaced up (186a), MNH
Cover from Barcelona to France with postmark dated on February 20, 1939. The city was occuped by the Francoist army six days later, on February 26, 1939. One of the last pieces of Republican mail shipped from Barcelona. Cenosr mark Heller RB3.17 in green.
Fuente de Piedra. Block of 4 with inverted overprint on the first stamp, plus double horizontal perforation. Unlisted. Favour postmark.
Callús unlisted censor mark, not published by Heller, "Comité d'Enllaç Antifeixista de la Comarca Manresa-Berga" on cover from Callús to Los Angeles, USA. Callús postmark dated on August 1936 and another censor mark from Barcelona Heller RB3.11. Very rare.
Post card Tranvías de Barcelona Sociedad Anónima, Sección de Propaganda, issued for the 1929 International Exhibition, addressed to Joaquín Llorens in 100 Brigada, 1r Batallón, 1a Compañía, Tura 3, C.C. Nº 5. Text dated on September 13, 1938. This soldier was in the 12 International Brigade until August 1938. Rare.
Stationery post card Edifil 77n to Joaquín Llorens, a Spaniard in the 12th International Brigade. Addressed to 12 brigada, 2º Batallón, E.M. (Estado Mayor), 5º Cuerpo de Ejército, 4º Equipo Móvil. Censor Heller 5a on the front and field post postmark E. de C. Nº 2 Heller 50 on the back. Rare.
Stationery post card Edifil 77n to Joaquín Llorens, a Spaniard in the 12th International Brigade. Addressed to Plaza Altozano 321, Barcelona. On the back, censor Heller 5a and field post postmark E. de C. B. Móvil of Jul 12, 1938 Heller 50. Rare.
Cover to France, from "209 Brigada, Sección de Recuperación, Agrupación de Divisiones Toral". Field post postmark and Valencia censor Heller RV2.4 on the front, and black military censor mark "CENSURA MILITAR" on the back.
International Brigades, Barcelona meter on cover to France, and postmark E. de C. Nº 4 Heller 62. Transit backstamp E. de C. B. Móvil Heller 85, censor Heller 5b and arrival.
International Brigades, cover to a brigadist, Perdo Puigdemont, "45 División, Plaza del Altozano Nº 12E - SRI Albacete". The code 12E was for the 12th Brigade General Staff. Pair of 30c with one bisected and Torredonjimeno postmark.
Bottom right corner stamp with inverted overprint. Allepuz only lists this variety on perforated blocks of 4 (nr. 125), but he does not record the same for imperforated. Very rare.
Overprinted "Habilitado para Franqueo 5 céntimos". Similar to Allepuz 132 (but this wiit overprint "Habilitado para 5 céntimos") and to Allepuz 139, same overprint on different stamp: "Habilitado para Franqueo 5 céntimos" on Auxilio a Necesitados 25c.
International Brigades cover with Valencia meter dated on Dec 1937 to France, with the initials "F.M:" (Franchise Militaire) on top right corner and censor mark on the back Heller 5b.
What makes this lot exceptionall are the dried plants inside, picked up at the Front and preserved in the covers since 1937.
International Brigades, cover to Czechoslovakia with Valencia Meter Heller 7 dated on May 3, 1937, censor and mark Heller 4 and mark SCC111 Heller 9 on the back, dated on April 30, 1937
Post card to Cannes with Valencia meter Heller 7 dated on March 24, 1937 and censor mark Heller 4. The post card is dated in Albacete on March 20, 1937
Cover sent by the brigadist Fritz Denters to his mother in Holland, G.W. Denters-Stallmann, with Barcelona meter dated on July 21, 1938 Heller 8, and censor Heller 5a on the back. The second cover was sent by the same brigadist to his mother in Holand again, circulated with French meter from Rue Bleue, Paris. Cover to The Netherlands
Lot of a cover sent by a Czech brigadist interned in the French camp for Spanish refugees of Gurs to Prague. And another cover sent from Spain by the same brigadist and to the same addressee on July 18, 1938, with censor and postmark of the International Brigades.
Cover from Pozoblanco to Santander, with Town Council's mark and strike "Certifico: Que no hay sellos. El encargado" (I certify that there are not stamps. The clerk). Postmark from Pozoblanco dated on Feb 13, 1937. Unlisted Pozoblanco censor mark and three Socorro Rojo Internacional, Ayuda Hospitales, Provincial de Córdoba Allepuz 10 on tbe back, tied...
International Brigades censor mark Heller 5b on field post card with stamp cancelled by handwritten lines and sender from the 140 Brigada Mixta, 44 Division. By the end of the war and after the International Brigades were dissolved, their censor marks were still used by the Republican Army in Catalonia, between December 1938 and January 1939.
