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Featured Lots. Spanish Civil War local stamps, political labels and postal history.
Featured Lots. Spanish Civil War local stamps, political labels and postal history.
Composition variety on the top stamp: first "!FRANCO!" with both exclamation marks with the pont down instead of correct ¡FRANCO! (Allepuz 30a) plus lack of vertical perforation on the right margin (unlisted perf variety).
Used on an invoice of November 12, 1938. The ammount of the stamp is included in the invoice. Used as tax to finance the consruction of defensive systems. Cancelled with mark "AGRUPACIÓ / DE CONSTRUCCIÓ / IGUALADA"
Used on an invoice of December 17, 1938. The ammount of the stamp is included in the invoice. Used as tax to finance the consruction of defensive systems. Cancelled with mark "SECCIÓ D'OBRES / de l'Agrupament del / Ram de la Construcció / IGUALADA"
PSU UGT post card, Camperol la collita és la reraguarda dels que lluiten, uncirculated, Allepuz 284.
PSU post card, Els teus germans del fron t'esperen per la lluita sagrada de la llibertat, uncirculated, Allepuz 334.
Postmark from Camp d'Adge of July 7, 1939 and senser's info on the top left corner: "Augusto Pascual, Campo nº 3, Barraca A.X. 3, Agde (Herault), and on the other corner "El destinatario paga el franqueo de la carta" (The addressee pays the franking of this letter). Barcelona censor mark Heller B20.13 and tax marks T and "Ptas. 1'40".
Post card to a foreign inmate in Miranda de Ebro concentration camp, 1943. Sent from Cestona to Fernand Teller.
Cover with franchise of Worker's Battalion 17 "BATALLÓN DE TRABAJADORES Nº 17 / CORREOS / 28-10-38 / FRANQUICIA" and mark of the same battalion on top right corner to the inspector of concentration camps and prisoners of war in Burgos. Burgos censor mark. Ex Gómez-Guillamón.
Post card to Madrid provincial prison, with Madrid's Correo Central postmark of December 15, 1942 and censor mark of the prison "PRISIÓN PROVINCIAL / MADRID / CENSURADA". Allepuz 423. Ex Gómez-Guillamón.
Cover from Falset to Vendrell, circulated without stamps as they were lacking in the post office, and mark "Certifico que en este día / no hay sellos de Correo" (I certify that in this day there are not postage stamps) and Falset Town Council mark reading "Consell Municipal Falset". Postmark dated on May 21, 1938.
Cover from Calanda, Teruel, to Mollet del Vallès, with mark "Grupo de transmisiones / y señales" used as censor, plus pencil note "Censura Guerra" and signature of the censor. Unreadable date on postmark, but content dated on September 11, 1937.
Milícies Antifeixistes de Catalunya field post card to Barcelona, with very rare mark used as franchise reading "División Francico Ascaso / Regimiento / Nº 1 / Durruti / 3º Batallón". No postmark, but text dated on June 13, 1937.
International Brigades cover to Czechoslovakia with postmark SCC 111 Heller 9 dated on October 25, 1937, and censor mark Heller 5b on the back.
CGT, 1 Fr blue and black, unlisted. On a 1938 CGT Carte Confédérale card. Unlisted in blue and black (Domènech only lists it in black, nr. 2100)
Homenatge a la URSS, sepia complete set, GG1739/48A, MH Shadows on top borders. "Vacances a la URSS" and "Els 4 invernats del Pol" with thins on the back.
Sadurní d’Anoia, different characters, unlisted (Allepuz 5 var), MNG. Different characters in «Arbitri Municipal sobre consumacions», capital letters in «AMB DESTÍ A L’HOSPITAL» dfferent 5 in the value and «Cénts.» instead of «Centims».
UGT, Unió General de Dependents del Comerç i de la Indústria, Secció d’Ajut al Combatent, 10c Allepuz 820, MH
UGT, Unió General de Dependents del Comerç i de la Indústria, Secció d’Ajut al Combatent, 10c Allepuz 809, GG2013, MH Oxid stains on top and left borders.
UGT, Unió General de Dependents del Comerç i de la Indústria, Secció d’Ajut al Combatent, 10c Allepuz 812, GG2014, MH
UGT, Unió General de Dependents del Comerç i de la Indústria, Secció d’Ajut al Combatent, 10c Allepuz 815, GG2011, MH
UGT, Unió General de Dependents del Comerç i de la Indústria, Secció d’Ajut al Combatent, 10c Allepuz 830, GG2012, MH
UGT, Federación Siderometalúrgica de España, Allepuz 959 in two blocks of 6 (front and back of the sheet) with mark «Sindicat Metalúrgic / UGT / El Vendrell»
Cover with letterhead Socorro Rojo Internacional, Correspondencia del Combatiente from the front to Madrid, with postmark dated on June 26, 1937. Sent by the soldier Carlos Pascual, 28 Brigada, 2º Batallón, 4ª Compañía.
Cover from Miranda de Ebro concetration camp to Switzerland, sent by a Polish prisoner whose info is on the back of the cover: "Rte [Remite] Roman Oswald, Miranda de Ebro (Burgos), C. de Conc. [Campo de Concentración], Comp. [Compañia] Polacos, España".
Registered cover with mark "Tabor Ifni - Sahara / Mando" to Villafranca de Duero, 1937. Monreal del Campo censor mark Heller M76.1 and transit railway postmark on the back.
Two post cards from Saint Jean de Luz, France, to Madrid (Republican zone) and Pontevedra (Nationalist zone), sent by the same person to a mother and a daughter living in different zones, letting them to know about each other. The card addressed to Madrid has censor mark Heller RM1.1
Air mail cover from Valencia to France, with postmark dated on March 24, 1939 and censor mark Heller RV2.4. Vernet-les-Bains arrival backstamp dated on March 31, 1939. Cover circulated during the last week of the Spanish Republic.
Granada, División Azul, Aguinaldo 50c molded on the back, unlisted variety of Allepuz 144, MNH
Falset, unlisted censor mark on cover to Barcelona. Unreadable date on Falset postmark, but content dated on December 23, 1939. Mark CENSURA MILITAR / FALSET. Unpublished.
Cover from Paris to Saint-Emillion with Rue Bleue (Paris 83) postmark dated on June 9, 1938. This postmark was specially made to postmark the correspondence of the International Brigades sent through Paris from April 1937 to June 1938.
UGT, Federación Obrera de Hostelería, unlisted, used. Allepuz number 904 lists a similar stamp with the following differences: "Num" below "1937" right side and "Federació Obrera d'Hosteleria" in a single line.
Unión General de Trabajadores de España, 10c carmine, 1930, unlisted with this year (Allepuz lists the 1932 issue, RR, with number 746), MNH
Pi de Llobregat, pair of ulisted proofs in different colours: chesnut & blue on rose and green & blue on rose.
Mark "Columna Perea - Ingenieros nº 3 - 4a Compañía" on field post card to Valencia. No date. Allepuz 1669.
Air mail cover from the front to Czechoslovakia, with post mark "E. de C. B. Móvil" dated on May 12, 1938 Heller 85, and air mail mark Heller 92. Censor mark Heller 5b on the back plus two Prague arrival backstamps with date of May 15, 1938.
CNT UGT, Todo por la Alianza 10c, black colour displaced to the right and CNT broken letters,, Allepuz 1031id, MH
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.