Republican
Republican Postal History of the Spanish Civil War
Republican Postal History of the Spanish Civil War
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.
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.
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.
Recycled cover with unpublished mark "179-B / C.C", belonging as per the sender's info to 179 Brigada de Carabineros. Franked only with Beneficency stamps from the series Pedagogos. With content. Very rare.
Postal Stationery Edifil 79 with mark "Correos /145 Brigada Mixta / Estafeta de Campaña", from the front to Mollet.
Milícies Antifeixistes de Catalunya post card with Division Francisco Ascaso, 3r Regimiento Rojo y Negro franchise to Mollet, 1937.
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...
Postal stationery Edifil 78 with mark "Correo de Campaña, 5 C C, Turia 3" to Beniganim. Arrival backstamp.
Cover from Cornudella de Montsant (Tarragona) to Madrid, with postmark dated on August 5, 1938 and marks "Certifico que no hay sellos en venta, 5 Agos. 1938" and "Consell Municipal / Cornudella de Montsant". Arrival backstamp. Flap missing.
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.
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.
Cover from the front to Les Franqueses (Barcelona) sent by a soldier in 179 Brigada Carabineros, with rare postmark "175-B / C. C." that should be read as "175 Brigada, Correo de Campaña". With content dated on 15 Aug 1938. Very rare.
Field post card to a soldier in Compañía Divisionaria de Transimsiones, 30 División, Base 8, C.C. nº 11 B. Base 8 is the codename for the mobile post office corresponding to Priego. Censor mark on the back. Allepuz 1672.
Field post card with franchise of 145 Brigada Mixta and double censor mark, both different, from the front to Mollet del Vallès (Barcelona). Dated on 11 Nov 1938. Alllepuz 1679.
Cover from the front to the International Red Cross in Valencia, with field post postmark in blue green dated on 10 Jul 1938.
Postal stationery Edifil 77, with legend "El Gobierno necesita fortalecer la economía nacional. Tú puedes contribuir a ello de manera directa, ingresando tus economías en la Caja Postal de Ahorros", from Tarragona to Batallón de Vía y Obras de Ferrocarril nº 2. Dated on 27 Jul 1938.
Cover from the front to Barcelona, from 26 División, Compañía Divisionaria de Transimisiones, with field post postmark dated on 11 Oct 1938
Post card between two soldiers, from Grupo de Transmisiones of XXII Cuerpo de Ejército to 30 División, Compañía Divisionaria de Transmisiones. Dated on 4 Sept 1938. Split on bottom edge.
Unused cover with letterhead Sindicat de Treballadors i de Banca, Borsa i Estalvi de Mataró i Comarca / UGT.
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.
Postal stationery Eidifl 79 from Mollet del Vallès to the Aragon front, with legend "Acostumbraos a depositar vuestros ahorros en la Caja Postal.- Secreto absoluto y firme garantía".
