Postal History
Postal History of the Spanish Civil War
Postal History of the Spanish Civil War
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark of June 17, 1939. On the back Madrid censor mark Heller M2.2. Arrival postmark of Aug. 21, 1939.
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark of Jan 12 1939 and blue Barcelona censor mark Heller RB3.13. Arrival and transit backstamps.
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark of Jan 3 1939 and black Barcelona censor mark Heller RB3.12a. Arrival and transit backstamps.
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark of Nov 11 1938 and blue Barcelona censor mark Heller RB3.12a. Arrival and transit backstamps.
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark of Oct 6 1938 and green Barcelona censor mark Heller RB3.12a. Arrival backstamp.
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark of Sept. 9 1938 and green Barcelona censor mark Heller RB3.12a. Arrival and transit backstamps.
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark dated on Aug. 22, 1938 and Madrid censor mark Heller RM1.1. Arrival backstamp.
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark of Jul 19, 1938 and Madrid censor mark Heller RM1.1. On the back, transit and arrival marks and unlisted censor mark reading "CENSURA".
Paris Rue St. Denis postmark dated on Dec. 12, 1937 and Madrid censor mark Heller RM1.1. Transit and arrival backstamps.
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 685 and Barcelona local Edifil 17. Barcelona roller postmark of April 2, 1938. Sender’s info on the fback: “Dirección: Julio González del Río, Palacio Misiones (Exposición), Barcelona”. Valencia arrival roller backstamp dated on April 5, 1938.
Cover from José María Gómez, 6º Batallón Etapas, 7ª Compañía, Destacamento de Falset, Tarragona, Ejército del Este, to Barcelona. Mark "No hay sellos en esta villa" and Falset's town council seal "CONSELL MUNICIPAL FALSET". Falset postmark of April 1938.
Improvised post card from Huércal to Valencia's Prisión Celular. Sent to Luis Gutiérrez Santamarina, member of Falange. Censor mark "PRISIÓN CELULAR DE VALENCIA / CENSURADA" One stamp lacking and no postmark, but text on the back dated on October 19, 1938.
Cover from Carcagente to France with letterhead "Sindicato Provincial de Transporte (UGT)" CNT overprinted on UGT. "Sección de carreros El Rayo". Valencia censor mark and Carcagente postmark of February 2, 1937.Arrival backstamp.
Post card sent by a former prisoner of Casa de Reforma de Cehegin just after liberation and while still being in Cehegin, trying to go to Alicante.Certificates
Post card sent from the prison for women Casa de Reforma in Cehegín (Murcia) by the inmate Josefa Díaz Ciruelas to Pilar S. de Prats in Madrid. Franked with 25c Edifil 749 and Cehegín postmark with unreadable date, but text on the back dated on January 29, 1939.
Improvised post card from Barcelona's Preventorio Judicial to Valencia's Prisión Celular. Sent by José Cleries, a member of the Fifth Column sentenced to prison (El Liberal, nr. 20218, Apr 11, 1937, page 4). The addressee is Luis Gutiérrez, member of Falange. Unreadable postmark but text on the back dated on October 22, 1938.
Mark "SED BREVES EN LAS CONTESTACIONES" and Madrid postmark dated on January 13, 1937. Addressed to José Cháves Fernández, Galeria 3a, Sala 3a, General Porlier 54. With content.
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.
Interesting early post card to a Republican prison. No postmark, but text dated on November 1, 1936. Addressed to José Chaves Hernández.
Mark used as franchise reading 2ª COMPAÑIA DIVISIONARIA / TRANSMISIONES. No postmark, but text on the back dated on November 9, 1937.
Post card with mark "MINISTERIO DE DEFENSA NACIONAL / CAMPO DE TRABAJO / Nº 3 / * SIM *" used as franchise, to Barcelona. Sent by José Maria Agustí and text dated on January 21, 1939. It is not clear if the sender was a guard or a prisoner of the camp, as the card is circulated without stamp. Most probably a prisoner's mail would not have been admitted...
Orihuela postmark of April 8, 1937, and Socorro Rojo Internacional label Allepuz 1080. Flap missing. Addressed to Vicente Alcaraz.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to Asilo de San Rafael women's prison, in Madrid. Madrid postmark dated on February 17, 1937. Mistake on the date of the text behind, that mentions 1936 instead of 1937. Addressed to Carmen Huerta Cebrián.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to Asilo de San Rafael women's prison, in Madrid. Madrid postmark dated on February 14, 1937. Addressed to Carmen Huerta Cebrián.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to Asilo de San Rafael women's prison, in Madrid. Madrid partially readable postmark, but text on the back dated on January 10, 1937. Addressed to Carmen Huerta Cebrián.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to Asilo de San Rafael women's prison, in Madrid. Madrid postmark of December 1936. Crease.
Stationrry post card Edifil 69 with Madrid postmark of March 30, 1937, to Carmen Huerta Cebrián, in Ventas prison, Madrid.
Stationery post card Edifil 76 from Santa Úrsula checka, in Valencia. This was a prison under the DEDIDE administration (Departamento Especial de Información del Estado), later, in 1938, absorbed by the SIM (Servicio de Información Militar). The DEDIDE fought against enemy espionage and sabotage in the Republican zone.
Post card with mark "Censurado / Prision Gubernativa" used in the improvised prison of Segorbe, in the Seminar. Segorbe postmark with ureadable date, but text on the back dated on December 5, 1937. Sender's info on the back: "Julio González del Río, Nave 1ª, Calle Valencia nº 5, Segorbe (Castellón)" (C/ Valencia nº 5 was the address of the Seminar)....
Stationery post card Edifil 80n to San Miguel prison, which was Oriuela's labor camp, installed in the seminar of this city. Murcia postmark dated on June 6, 1938. Addressed to Francisco Ballester Navarro, andsent by Antonio Ballester.
Postal stationery Edifil 69 with rare mark "COMANDANTE BUQUE PRISIÓN / MAHÓN / DE / MAHÓN" very well stamped. Tarragona postmark dated on Februery 23, 1937, and text on the back of Feb 20.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 from Marqués de Chavarri prison ship, with mark of the steamer on the back used as censor, and on the Socorro Rojo Internacional label on the front. Málaga postmark of November 28, 1936.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to Casa del Trabajo labor camp, in Alcalá de Henares. Censor mark of the camp on the front, "CENSURA". Addressed to Joaquín Juncosa Molins. Alcalá de Henares postmark of March 17, 1937 stamped upon arrival, as the text on the back is dated in Madrid, on March 4. This gives an idea of the delay of the correspondence addressed...
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to Asilo de San Rafael women's prison, in Madrid. Madrid postmark of March 25, 1937. Mark of the prison "Censurada" on the front. Addressed to Carmen Huerta Cebrián, in "Sala 5ª".
Stationery post card Edifil 75 Ff from a "cheka" in Estrada street, Madrid, to the same city. Madrid postmark of June 30, 1937 and text on the back dated on June 27. On the front, mark "SED BREVES EN LAS CONTESTACIONES".
Stetionery post card Edifil 69 from Ondarreta Prison, in San Sebastián, to the same city. Mark "PRISIÓN PROVINCIAL DE SAN SEBASTIÁN, DIRECCIÓN". Postmark of August 28, 1936. Sent by the prisoner Alfonso Vignau Asuero to his wife.
Madrid postmark of January 12, 1939 to Orihuela Labor Camp, to the prisoner Ángel Munilla Padrós.
Cover from Madrid to Albatera Labor Camp, with Madrid's Apartados postmark of April 17, 1938, to the prisoner Alfonso Calsina Borndons, sentenced to 5 years in labor camps by sentence of April 1, 1937 (see Archivo Histórico Nacional, Tribunales Populares y Jurados de Urgencia y de Guardia de Madrid, signature FC-CAUSA_GENERAL,352,Exp.39). With content.
Post card with Perpignan posmark dated on April 10, 1937 and Valencia censor mark Heller RV2.4, to José Peña Ruiz, in Reformatorio de Adultos prison, Alicante. José Peña was a lieutenant serving in Wad-Ras regiment, sentenced to 30 years in prison for rebellion, on September 17, 1936 (see Archivo Histórico Nacional, Fiscalía del Tribunal Supremo,...
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to Carmen Huerta Cebrián, sentenced to six monthes for disaffection to the regime on March 5, 1937 (see Archivo Histórico Nacional, Tribunales Populares y Jurados de Urgencia y de Guardia de Madrid, signature FC-CAUSA_GENERAL,113,Exp.11).
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 685 to Valencia, sent by Julio González del Río, in the improvised prison of Segorbe, in the Seminar. The sender's info reads "Nave 1ª, Valencia nº 5, Segorbe (Castellón)". Handwritten censor mark "C" and Segobe postmark with unreadable date, but text on the back of December 2, 1937. Unlisted in Allepuz.
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 685 and Barcelona local Edifil 17. Mark “Máximo 30 Palabras / en la contestación”. Unlisted by Allepuz.
Madrid Sucursal Nº 12 postmark of April 15, 1938, censor mark Heller M1.1 and transit and arrival backstamps.
Madrid Sucursal Nº 12 postmark of Aprli 1, 1938. Transit and arrival backstamps.
Madrid postmark of March 30, 1938 and censor mark Heller RM1.1. Arrival and transit backstamps.
Burgos censor mark Heller B92.8. Postmark of May 23, 1938. Marseille Gare Avion transit backstamp.
Burgos postmark of April 24, 1938. Handwritten patriotic slogan on the back: "Ni un hogar sin lumbre, ni un hombre sin pan. Franco". Arrival bakcstamps.
Post card from Casa de Reforma in Cehegín to Valencia Escuelas Pías prison, with censor mark of Cehegin labor camp in red reading "CASA DE REFORMA - CEHEGIN / *CENSURADA* / CONTESTE EN TARJETA POSTAL" and Cehegín postmark of January 6, 1939.
Post card from Casa de Reforma in Cehegín to Valencia prison, with censor mark of Cehegin labor camp in red reading "CASA DE REFORMA - CEHEGIN / *CENSURADA* / CONTESTE EN TARJETA POSTAL" and censor mark stamped upon arrival to Valencia prison reading "PRISION CELULAR DE VALENCIA / CENSURADA" in blue. Cehegín postmark of November 10, 1938.
Cover from Boghar Camp to Boghari (the closest city to the camp, only a few hudred meters far away), in French Algeria. Boghari postmark of June 8, 1940, French franchise stamp for Spanish refugees. Very rare cover from a camp for Spanish Republican refugees in North Africa.
Post card with mark "CENSURADO / PRISIÓN GUBERNATIVA" used in the improvised prison of Segorbe, in the Seminar. Segorbe postmark of april 5, 1938. Sender's info on the back: "Julio González del Río, Refugio nº 2, Calle Valencia nº 5, Segorbe" (C/ Valencia nº 5 was the address of the Seminar). Unlisted in Allepuz.
Madrid Sucursal 4 postmark dated on Jun 2, 1938 and censor mark Heller RM1.1. Transit and arrival backstamps.
Madrid Sucursal 12 postmark dated on Mar 8, 1938, censor mark Heller M1.1 and transit and arrival backstamps.
Valencia postmark dated on Dec 15, 1939 and double Spanish and French censors.
Madrid Sucursal 12 postmark dated on Mar 12, 1938 and censor mark Heller M1.1.Transit and arrival backstamps.
Censor mark B92.8. Burgos postmark dated on March 31, 1938. French transit and arrival marks.
Unreadable postmark, but arrival backstamp dated on Nov 1, 1930. Barcelona censor mark Heller B20.12.
Post card from Valencia to Barcelona, wrongly dated on April 22, 1936 (postmarks dated on April 22, 1937), franked with Alfonso XIIi stamps overprinted "República Española" (Edifil 594) and censor mark Heller RV2.4. Barcelona arrival of the same day, on the top stamps.
Addressed to Luis Conde Devesa, Reformatorio de Adultos, 1º dormitorio, Alicante. Madrid postmark of April 19, 1938.
Addressed to Luis Conde Devesa, Reformatorio de Adultos (Escuelas), Alicante. Madrid postmark of February 2, 1938.
Addressed to prisoner Luìs Conde Devesa, Reformatorio de Adultos, 1º Dormitorio. Madrid postmark of March 20, 1938
Alicante postmark of March 16, 1938. Sender's info on the back: "Luis Conde, Reformatorio de Adultos Alicante (1º Dormitorio)". Arrival backstamp. Unaccurate opening.
Sent by Luis Conde in Alicante's Reformatorio de Adultos prison. He notes "Talleres", (workshop). Partially unreadable postmark of January 1938.
The rarest SIM & Republican labor camps and prisons system related piece we have ever seen. Unlisted in Allepuz catalogue of post cards.
Post card to Juan Franco Ramos, in Alcalá de Henares labor camp Casa de Trabajo. Blue censor mark "CENSURADA". Postmark of January 21, 1939. The sender is Paquita Alarcón, from Madrid. Unlisted in Allepuz.
Cover from Los Escolapios prison to Figueres, franked with 45c Edifil 752 and Gandia postmark of October 20, 1938. Censor mark "D.P. Nº 3 GANDIA / CENSURA" on the back, plus sender's info: "Vicente Martí Castello, /Depósito de Prisioneros nº 3, 6ª Cñía / Gandía".
Censor mark and postmark dated on December 2, 1936. Transit and arrival backstamps.
Censor, Figueres postmark dated on May 24, 1938 and Pro Infància label Allepuz 3067. Sender in Figueres Red Cross hospital. Arrival backstamp.
