Postal History
Postal History of the Spanish Civil War
Postal History of the Spanish Civil War
Cover with censored letter from 6th Fortification Battalion, 1st Company, of San Miguel de los Reyes prison, sent to Valencia, franked with 45c Edifil 752 and Valencia censor mark Heller RV2.4 on the front and the back.
Postal stationery Edifil 81 from 5º Tabor de Regulares de Tetuán Nº 1 with mark and censor to Puebla de la Calzada.
French uprated stationery post card to Pontevedra, with Bordeaux postmark dated on February 2, 1939 and Pontevedra censor mark Heller P66.6.
French uprated stationery post card with postmark from Saint Jean de Luz dated on Sept 10, 1937 to Pontevedra, with Vigo censor marks Heller V43.17 and V43.4a.
Uprated French stationery post card to Pontevedra with Bordeax postmark of May 27, 1937 and Nationalist censor mark Heller P66.3b blue.
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.
Uprated with 10c stamp, and La Cava - Tortosa railway postmark dated on June 11, 1938. Barcelona arrival backstamp of June 13, 1938
Cover to Ignacio Jiménez Pardo, in General Porlier Street prison, 1st Gallery, Madrid. Franked with 25c Edifil 685 cancelled with a Tax postmark reading "T / ESPAGNE". General Porlier prison censor mark "SED BREVES EN LAS CONTESTACIONES". Arrival backstamp from Madrid Estafeta 9 dated on March 15, 1938.
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 749 with Valencia roller postmark dated on July 16, 1938 and censor mark reading "PRISIÓN CELULAR DE VALENCIA / CENSURADA". From José María Gómez Templado in 4th Gallery, cell 520 to his father in Cieza, Murcia. Unlisted by Allepuz.
Post card from 114 Brigada Mixta, Sector Pozoblanco (strikenthrough) to Chulilla, Valencia. Allepuz 1710.
Cover from the front to Girona, with mark "26 División / 120 Brigada Mixta / Censura de Guerra"
Cover with 27 Division, Batallón Ametralladoras Divisionario censor mark. From the front to El Morell (Tarragona). With content.
148 Brigada Mixta censor mark on post card to Puerto de Mazarrón. Field post card to Puerto de Mazarrón with military censor mark "BRIGADA MIXTA 148 / 1º BATALLON / COMISARIO DELEGADO DE GUERRA". Allepuz 1673.
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.
Valdepeñas Red Cross Local Commitee letterhead and franchise on cover to Barcelona. Valdepeñas postmark of Dec. 1, 1938 and Barcelona arrival backstamp of Jan. 7, 1939
Cover from 64 Gun Machines Divisionary Battalion to Barcelona with two different censor marks on the front and 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.
Sevilla local and Palma de Mallorca arrival backstamp. The text asks for an exchange of patroitic overprints.
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 749 and unreadable postmark, sent to Mariano Ballester Navarro, in "C. de T. de San Miguel" in Orihuela, this is Campo de Trabajo (labor camp) in Orihuela, which was in San Miguel seminar in that city. Text on the back dated on the last days of the war, on March 21, 1939.
Front cover to Totana Labour Camp, with Villanueva del Arzobispo postmark dated on May 16, 1938. Ripped off stamp.
Post card from Totana Labour Camp to Villanueva del Arzobispo, dated on May 1, 1938. No marks of any kind and with ripped off stamp. It could have been circulated in a cover or it may have been returned by the censorship of the camp for having a text longer than what was allowed. Unlisted by Allepuz.
Improvised post card, made with a sewed sheet, prepared by the prisoner Celso Bueno y Bueno to be sent to his wife Mercedes Marco Sánchez in Villanueva del Arzobispo (Jaén), with no text on the back and uncirculated.
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 667 and Murcia postmark dated on Nov. 12, 1937, from the provincial prison to the same city. Sent by Emilio Díez de Revenga y Rodríguez, lawyer and son of Murcia's mayor Emilio Díez de Revenga Vicente. Sent to his wife María Josefa Torres Fontes.
Postal stationery Edifil 79n sent to Felix Perearnau Viola, prisoner in Labor Camp Number 5, in Ogern.
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 749 and unreadable postmark, sent to Salvador Garriga, Regàs 4, 4º 2a, Barcelona. Text on the back dated on December 31, 1938 and signed by Juan Recasens, who points as sender's address "Campo 3". Allepuz 1754.
Archive of correspondece belonging to a prisoner in Labor Camp Number 2 and Preventorio C, finally liberated and enroled in a military unit.
1938. Lot of 9 postal stationery sent to or from Fernando Candela Ortells, to the provincial prison in Valencia first, and to Totana Labor Camp (Murcia) later.
1938. Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison in Valencia to Orihuela Labor Camp (Alicante)
1938/1939. Lot of 5 covers to San Miguel de los Reyes prison’s 4º Batallón de Fortificaciones, to several locations
Registered mail cover franked with pair of 45c Edifil 752 to Camagüey, Cuba, with unreadable date in the postmark, sent from Disciplinary Battalion Nr 10. Barcelona censor mark Heller RB3.17 on the front and the back, and also Habana transit mark on the back dated on August 31, 1938 and Camagüey arrival postmark of September 1, 1938.
Post card franked with pair 25c Edifil 685 and field post postmark C. C. Nº 1 of Jul 15, 1938, from a Disciplinary Battalion to Alhama de Salmerón.
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.
Cover with mute roller postmark from the front to Barcelona, with censor mark of the 26 División (former División Durruti) "26 División / 119 Brigada Mixta / Censura" and arrival backstamp dated on Jan 5, 1938.
No postmark but text dated. Censor mark "27 División - 124 Brigada / Mixta / Censura" on double post card of Milícies Antifeixistes de Catalunya from Tardienta, in the Aragon front, to Barcelona, The card was sent fully used, with the text on the return part. Allepuz 1759.
Franchise mark "Ajuntament / de / Granollers / Departament de / Proveïments" and departure postmark.
Cover from Saint Etienne, France, to Bilbao, with was Nationalist zone, but missent to the Republican zone and there censored with Valencia mark Heller RV2.4 and returned to the sender with mark "Retour a / l'envoyeur". Very interesting example of disruption of the postal services due to the war.
Cover to Birmandreis, Algeria, with Barcelona censor mark Heller RB3.12a and Red Cross political label GG1642 on the back tied by Birmandreis arrival postmark. With content.
What makes this lot exceptionall are the dried plants inside, picked up at the Front and preserved in the covers since 1937.
Unlisted Valencia prison censor mark reading "Prisión Celular / Valencia / Censura". Unlisted in Allepuz.
Censor mark used by the International Brigades Heller 4 and post mark SCC 111 Heller 9, dated on April 15, 1937. The Valencia meter is dated on April 16, 1937. Cover to The Netherlands.
