Republican Labor Camps & Prisons
Postal History of the Labor Camps of the SIM (Military Information Service) and Republican Prisons.
All lots under this category are sold with a Certificate of Authenticity
Postal History of the Labor Camps of the SIM (Military Information Service) and Republican Prisons.
All lots under this category are sold with a Certificate of Authenticity
Extremely rare mark "MINISTERIO DE DEFENSA NACIONAL / CAMPO DE TRABAJO / Nº 6 / * S.I.M. *" on franked cover to Barcelona.
Very unusual detainee's file of Servicio de Investigación Militar (SIM) Preventorio G
Very unusual detainee's file of Servicio de Investigación Militar (SIM) Preventorio G
SIM's detainee file from Preventorio G, with mark of this preventorio. This prison was in St. John's convent, in Barcelona's Saragossa street. The file corresponds to Salvador Bedós García-Ciaño, born in Sabadell, Unpublished, never seen before document, that had to be salvaged from the Preventorio G offices at the end of the war, rarely avoiding...
Stationery postcard from Murcia provincial prison to the same city, with Murcia postmark dated on May 7, 1937.
Cover with censor mark "Casa de Reforma - Cehegín / *Censurada* / Conteste en tarjeta postal" in red ink. Sent by the inmate Salvadora Campos, with her address on the back of the cover. Cehegin postmark with unreadable date.
Postcard with mark "PRISIÓN PREVENTIVA DE PARTIDO DE LAVIANA" used as censor, and Pola de Laviana (Oviedo) postmark dated on Jan. 27 [1937]. Despite the year is very difficulty visibible, the postage rate of 15 cts indicates that the postcard was sent before April 1, 1937, when rates were increased to 25 cts. Extremely rare.
Stationery post card Edifil 75, sent by Jesús García Galán, cmdor. (comedor) izqd. (izquierdo) to Buenaventura Galán Soria. Unreadable roller postmark,, but text on the back dated on March 19, 1937 (1936 instead of 1937 by mistake). Censor mark Heller RM1.1
Stationery post card Edifil 75, sent by Jesús García Galán, cmdor. (comedor) izqd. (izquierdo) to Buenaventura Galán Soria. No postmark, but text on the back dated on March 8, 1937. Censor mark Heller RM1.1
Stationery post card Edifil 75, sent by Jesús García Galán, cmdor. (comedor) izqd. (izquierdo) to Buenaventura Galán Soria. No postmark, but text on the back dated on March 10, 1937. Censor mark Heller RM1.1
Cover to Julio Rodríguez Eguidaru, to General Porlier prison in Madrid, 2nd Gallery. Mark "SED BREVES EN LAS CONTESTACIONES" and Madrid Apartados Particulares roller postmark of January 22, 1938. With content signed by Manuel Caloto.
Letter from "Vapor Marqués Chavarri" dated in Málaga on October 15, 1936, with mark of the prison ship used as censor.
Stationery postcard sent by a prisoner in Marqués de Chavarri prison ship in Málaga harbor, November 3, 1936, with mark of the prison ship.
Stationery postcard sent by a prisoner in Marqués de Chavarri prison ship in Málaga harbor, November 9, 1936, with mark of the prison ship.
Stationery postcard sent by a prisoner in Marqués de Chavarri prison ship in Málaga harbor, October 23, 1936, with mark of the prison ship.
Stationery postcard sent by a prisoner in Marqués de Chavarri prison ship in Málaga harbor, October 25, 1936, with mark of the prison ship.
Stationery postcard sent by a prisoner in Marqués de Chavarri prison ship in Málaga harbor, November 17, 1936, with mark of the prison ship.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 from Marqués de Chavarri prison ship, with mark of the steamer on the back used as censor, and Málaga postmark of November 3, 1936.
Cover to the prisoner José Manuel Álvarez Arenas, in Madrid's General Porlier prison. Madrid postmark of April 26, 1938, tax mark and censor "SED BREVES EN LAS CONTESTACIONES". Certificate Graus (nr. AT2/85-8, of Nov 28, 2011).
Torrecampo (Córdoba) - Barcelona.Stampless cover from 8º Cuerpo de Ejército, Batallón Disciplinario, 3ª Compañía to Barcelona. Mark for lack of stamps "CERTIFICO: Que no hay / sellos de correos en la loca- / lidad. / EL ALCALDE." Signed A. Toledo. Town council mark "CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / TORRECAMPO (Córdoba). Torrecampo postmark with unreadable date.
Cover from Manuel Costa, Plana Mayor, XIII Batallón Disciplinario de Combate, Base Turia nº 1, C.C nº 13 to Eduardo Costa, 10º Grupo de Cañones 109, 27 Batería, Base Turia nº 2. Unreadable postmark.
2nd Disciplinary Battalion - Figueres (Girona). Cover from 2º Batallón Disciplinario to the front, franked with 45c Edifil 752, with censor mark of the Battalion used as postmark, reading " CENSURA / del 2º Bon. Dicplº del / EJÉRCITO DEL ESTE".
Mark "SED BREVES EN LAS CONTESTACIONES" and Madrid roller postmark dated on January 21, 1937. Addressed to José Cháves Fernández, Galeria 3a, Sala 3a, General Porlier 54. With content.
Cover from Madrid to Albatera Labor Camp, with Madrid roller postmark of January, 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.
Cover with Valencia postmark of April 12, 1937 to the Model Prison, in the same city. Addressed to the prisoner Luis Roig.
Cover to Cairo, Egypt, from Batallón Disciplinario nº 4 with censor marks.
Cover to Reformatorio de Adultos prison, franked with a 30c stamp and one bisected plus Red Cross label Allepuz 2241. Albatera pòstmark with unreadable date, but Alicante roller arrival bacstamp of April 21, 1937
Postcard to Juan José Leirado Pajares in "2a Compalía, D[e]p[ósi]to de Prisioneros nº 1 Gandía", with clean censor mark "D. P. Nº 3 GANDIA / CENSURA". Madrid roller postmark of September 30, 1938.
Postcard from Batallón Disciplinario, 2ª Compañía, Base 1ª, C.C. nº 1 with field post posmmark of June 28, 1938, to Alhama de Salmerón.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA". Valencia postmark dated on February 8, 1939. Censor number "8" on the text inside.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA". Valencia postmark dated on January 30, 1939. Censor number "8" on the text inside.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA". Valencia postmark dated on January 4, 1939. Text inside.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA". Valencia postmark dated on January 2, 1939. Censor number "4" on the text inside.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA" and censor number "8" on the text inside. Valencia postmark with unreadable date, but text dated on December 11, 1938.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA" and censor number "8". Valencia postmark dated onDecember 7, 1938, Text inside.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA" and Valencia postmark dated on December 7, 1938, Text inside with line cancelled by the censorship.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA" and censor number "9" on the cover and on the text inside. Valencia postmark dated on November 5, 1938,
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA" and Valencia postmark with unreadable date, but text inside dated on October 30, 1938.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA" and Valencia roller postmark dated on October 9, 1938, Very clear marks. Text inside.
Cover from San Miguel de los Reyes prison to Valencia, San Miguel de los Reyes censor mark "D.P. Nº1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA" and Valencia postmark with unreadable date, but text inside dated on September 29, 1938.
Postcard to Juan José Leirado Pajares in "2a Compalía, Depósito de Prisioneros nº1, Gandía (Valencia)", with censor mark "D. P. Nº 3 GANDIA / CENSURA". Unreadable postmark date, but text on the back dated on January 6, 1939.
Postcard to Juan José Leirado Pajares in "2a Compalía, Depósito de Prisioneros nº1, Gandía (Valencia)", with censor mark "D. P. Nº 3 GANDIA / CENSURA". Unreadable postmark date, but text on the back dated on December 30, 1938.
Postcard to Juan José Leirado Pajares in "2a Compañía, Depósito de Prisioneros nº1, Gandía (Valencia)", with censor mark "D. P. Nº 3 GANDIA / CENSURA". Unreadable postmark date, but text on the back dated on October 31, 1938.
Stationery post card Edifil 76 to María Cruz Abaigar in the prison camp of Alacuas. Censor mark of the camp "CENSURADA" and unreadable postmark, but text on the back dated November 30, 1937.
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.
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.
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.
Interesting early post card to a Republican prison. No postmark, but text dated on November 1, 1936. Addressed to José Chaves Hernández.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Cover from Cervera to Font Romeu, France, with Cervera postmark dated on Nov 14, 1938 and censor mark Heller RB3.12a. Sender's info on the back: "Remite José Clavero Casimiro / Batallón de Trabajadores / de Yngenieros Nº 5, 2ª Compañía / Cervera / (Lérida)". Arrival backstamp. One stamp missing.
Stationery post card Edifil 77n addressed to Preventorio E "Uruguay", this is, the steamship Uruguay in Barcelona harbor, used as prison under the SIM administration.
Stationery post card Edifil 77n addressed to Preventorio E "Uruguay", this is, the steamship Uruguay in Barcelona harbor, used as prison under the SIM administration.
Three stationery post cards sent by prisoner José Blasi Mora from Labor Camp number 2 in Hospitalet de Mar (currently Hospitalet de l'Infant). No references to the camp neither to any of the topics that can help to identify correspondence coming from them, as requesting packets to be sent through Pueblo Español, but all of them in the chronology the...
Stationery post card Edifil 77n from Labor Camp number 2 in Hospitalet de Mar (currently, Hospitalet de l'Infant), under SIM administration, Servicio de Información Militar, with sender's info "Josep Blasi Mora / 2on Camp Treball / 1a Companyia / Base Turia / nº 3". Unreadable outcoming postmark and Santa Coloma de Farners arrival postmark dated on August...
