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
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.
Post card to prison steamship Alfonso Pérez, to the prisoner Luis Sarabia Casuso, in Hold nr. 3.Unreadable postmark, but text on the back dated on September 22, 1936. Santander censor mark Heller RS9.1.
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,...
Post card with Bilbao postmark of December 8, 1936 and censor mark Heller RB9.1a, sent to the same city from El Carmelo improvised prison. This prison was a Carmelite convent transformed into prison at the beginning of the war, to host mostly rebel military. Unlisted by Allepuz.
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...
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 "José Blasi Mora / Campo Trabajo nº 2 / 1a Compañía / Base Turia nº 3". No postmarks, but text on the back dated on July 8, 1938.
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 / 2on Camp T. [for Treball] / 1a Cia / Base Turia / nº 3". Unreadable postmark, but text on the back dated on July 6, 1938.
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 / Camp Treball 2 / 1a Cia". No postmarks, but text on the back dated on July 2, 1938.
Stationery post card Edifil 79n 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 "José Blasi Mora / Campo nº 2 / 1a Cia / Hospitalet Mar". No postmarks, but text on the back dated on June 21, 1938.
Stationery post card Edifil 79n 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 "J. Blasi Mora / 2a Cia / 2º C.T. [for Campo de Trabajo] / Hospitalet M. [for Mar]". Unreadable postmark, but text on the back dated on June 17, 1938.
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 / C.T. [for Camp de Treballa] nº 2 / 1a comp,. / 3a secc. / 4t polotó / 1a Escuadra". No postmarks, but text on the back dated on May 22, 1938.
Post card from Labor Camp number 2 in Hospitalet de Mar under SIM administration, Servicio de Información Militar, (currently, Hospitalet de l'Infant), with sender's info "Josep Blasi Mora / Camp Treball nº 2 / 1a Companyia / Hospitalet de Mar (Tarragona)".
Postal stationery Edifil 69 with rare mark "COMANDANTE BUQUE PRISIÓN / MAHÓN / DE / MAHÓN" very well stamped. Tarragona postmark dated on Februery 16, 1937, and text on the back of the same date.
Stationery post card Edifil 79 sent from Girona's judicial preventory in Portal Nou street to Barcelona. Girona postmark dated on February 2, 1938 and text on the back dated the day before. Sender info on left margin: "Ferran Blasi Mora / Portal Nou, 1 / Girona".
Stationery post card Edifil 80n, from Montjuïc Castle prison in Barcelona to the same city. Barely visible postmark dated on June 1, 1938, and text on the back dated on May 28, 1938.
Registered cover from Madrid to Albatera labor camp, with postmark dated on July 8, 1938. Arrival backstamp and mark "Censurada". With content.
Two postal stationery Edifil 79 sent from SIM's Labor Camp number 2 in Hospitalet de Mar, with International Brigades postmark and censor. Only one other piece of correspondence from the Republican labor camps known circulated with International Brigades marks.
Stationery post card Edifil 79 with mark "CASTILLO DE MONTJUIC / PRISIONES MILITARES". Sent by a prisoner in the castle, known as "Preventorio A". He mentions cell nr. 187. Unreadable postmark, but text dated on July 19, 1938.
Postal stationery to Valencia, sent by Julio González del Río, in Palacio de las Misiones (Exposición), Barcelona. Postmark of May 16, 1938.
Post card to Casa del Trabajo in Alcalá de Henares, to inmate Joaquín Juncosa Molins. Unreadable postmark, but text on the back dated on December 9, 1936. Mark of the camp "Sed breves en la contestación". Allepuz 1662.
Post card to Joaquín Juncosa Molins, in Casa del Trabajo labor camp of Alcalá de Henares. Postmark dated on December 10, 1936, stamped upon arrival. On the back, mark "Sed breves en la contestación". Allepuz 1668.
Post card sent to a prisoner in Casa del Trabajo labor camp in Alcalá de Henares by his wife, in Madrid's prison Asilo San Rafael. The addressee is Joaquín Juncosa Molins. Disguised by the postmark, sender info can be read: "Remite: Andrea Chabeau, Asilo San Rafael (Cárcel Mujeres), Madrid (3)" On the sender's info there is also a censor mark "CENSURA"....
Post card from Casa de Reforma in Cehegín to Valencia, with censor mark of Cehegin labor camp in violet reading "CASA DE REFORMA - CEHEGIN / *CENSURADA* / CONTESTE EN TARJETA POSTAL". Unreadable date on the postmark but text on the back dated on February 19, 1938. Unlisted by Allepuz.
Stationery post card Edifil 69 to the prisoner Joaquín Juncosa Molins, in Casa de Trabajo, Alcalá de Henares. Postmark of March 9, 1937. Mark on the front "CENSURADA"
Post card franked with 25c Edifil 749 and Valencia postmark dated on March 7, 1939, 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. Censor Mark "D.P. Nº 1 - VALENCIA / CENSURA".
