Featured Lots
Featured Lots. Spanish Civil War local stamps, political labels and postal history.
Featured Lots. Spanish Civil War local stamps, political labels and postal history.
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.
Mirror proof of the 10c label Alianza Editorial (Domènech 2015), paper on cardboard. Very rare.
SRI, Ayudad a las Víctimas del Fascismo 10c molded on the back, Allepuz 1125 unlisted var, MNH
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.
Montcada i Reixac, 5c with serial number on the back, unlisted variety of Allepuz 48, MNH
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.
Alhama de Granada, 5c overprinted Altura - Belleza - Historia, Allepuz 37, MNH
Caja de Previsión Social de Andalucía Oriental, Retiro Obrero, 10c Allepuz 1, MH
Unión General de Trabajadores de España, UGT, Cuota Mensual 1936, Allepuz 750, used
Cerdanyola, 5c chestnut with blue serial number on the back, Allepuz 1na, MH
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.
Barcelona, Barriada Pueblo Nuevo, Comisión Pro Refugiados, 10c, Allepuz 86, used
What makes this lot exceptionall are the dried plants inside, picked up at the Front and preserved in the covers since 1937.
CNT / SLF (Sindicato Luz y Fuerza), Torre de Cabdella / Capdella, 35c, Domènech 900O, used
CNT AIT, Federación Nacional de Sanidad, Domènech 914 on membership card, used
Federación Regional Levantina de Sindicatos Únicos de la Enseñanza, Domènech, 967, MH
Nathan mentions the set where this stamp belongs to in page 48 of his catalogue.
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.
JSU, Frente de la Juventud, Pro Fortificaciones, Refugios y Trabajos en el Frente 5c, Domènech 1712a, used
Villena, SRI, Solidaridad con las víctimas del fascismo, 5c, Allepuz 8, used
Socorro Rojo Internacional, Comité de Andújar, 15c, Allepuz 2, used Mark of the Andújar local committee of the SRI
Comité pro presos i perseguits, 20c, 6 d'octubre de 1934, Allepuz 2292s, MNG
Organitzacions Cíviques, G.E. Joventut Catalana 5c, Domènech 1902B MNH Very rare, despite some creases and aging stains
Post card UGT units a la lluita, Camperols! El camp és un front de lluita, published by Comissariat de Propaganda, Serie A, nº 7. Rare, Allepuz 256.
Post card FAI, Llibertat!, published by Comissariat de Propaganda, Serie A, nº 13. Rare. Unlisted.
Post card UGT CNT, Unió és força, published by Comissariat de Propaganda, Serie A, nº 20. Rare. Allepuz 314.
Post Card La Mascota de la Democràcia, El més petit de tots, Edición del Comissariat de Propaganda, uncirculated. Allepuz 925.
Receipt of the Servicio de envío de paquetes al frente of the 44th Division commissariat. Dated on July 28, 1938, with mark "Donativo Ptas 2, Cts 1". Rare.
International Brigades, cover from Brno, Czechoslovakia with postmark dated on 15 IX 1938 to the soldier Jiri Vejrosta, "SRI 6120, Barcelona", redirected to the hospital of the International Brigades in Denia by adding "Herido, Denia" with pencil and "Plazo Altozano, Denia".
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.
Franchise mark of División Francisco Ascaso, Regimiento Rojo y Negro, on post card of Milícies Antifeixistes de Catalunya from the Aragon front to Mollet del Vallès. Allepuz 1758.
Algemesí, Hospital de Sangre, overprinted TABACOS, unlisted Overprint TABACOS handstamped. Unlisted. Overprinted as a local fiscal for tobacco tax and then used by the mail. The postmark ink is on the handstamp ink, which guarantees it's genuinity. Unlisted overprint (Allepuz 1 for the stamp). Extraordiarily rare.
Pi de Llobregat, Macia brown souvenir sheet with displaced overprint and with no serial number, unlisted, MNH
