Selection of the rarest lots
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 The file corresponds to Salvador Bedós García-Ciaño, born in Sabadell, Unpublished, never seen before document, that had to be salvaged from the Preventorio G offices at the end of the war, rarely avoiding...
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 to Valencia with franchise mark "COLUMNA PEREA / ingenieros Nº 3 - 4ª Compañía". Dated in Cachiporrilla Alta peak, on October 18, 1936.
Cover to Valencia with franchise mark "COLUMNA TORRES-BENEDITO / DIVISIÓN PITARCH / CORREOS". Sent to Nicolás Serra by Luis Peyró. Valencia arrival backstamp of December 20, 1936.
Cover to the military court of the army in Levant with Pro Cultura Aviación Allepuz 2154 on the back, Mark on the label "ARMA DE AVIACION / 11 ESCYADRA / GRUPO 2º / 4ª ESCUADRILLA". La Garganta (Ciudad Real) postmark od September 27, 1938. Sender's info: Capitán Herreros, casa Roja, Carcer (Valencia)".
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.
Collection of Spanish separatist stamps, from Catalonia and Valencia. Many in blocks of four and mostly mint never hinged. 125 different types / colors. It is difficult to find this kind of stamps in blocks and in MNH condition. You can download high resolution pictures of each page of the album HERE.
Cover from gunboat Cañonero Canalejas with frnachise mark dated on July 28, 1938 to Palma de Mallorca. With content.
Cover with Destructor Huesca, destroyer ship letterhead, franchise and censor mark. Mute postmark with star. Sent by Miguel Moragues to his wartime penfriend Margarita Pascual in Llucmajor (Mallorca). Content dated on February 2, 1939.
Cover from Iznalloz (Granada) to Antonio Jaimez Jiménez, Base 1a, C.C. Nº 1, E.M., Carteria Militar B. Postmark "ESTAFETA / CAMPAÑA / FRENTE DE GRANDA / CORREOS". Unlisted trilingual censor mark on tbe back, in Spanish, French and English: "CENSURADA / SED BREVES / SOYEZ CONCIS - BE BRIEF".
Cover with Diezma postmark (Granada) with unreadable date to Barcelona. On the back, unlisted censor mark in Spanish, French and English: "CENSURADA / SED BREVES / SOYEZ CONCIS - BE BRIEF".
Unlisted variety, legend "REQUETÉS DE REQUETÉS" instead of "REQUETÉS DE CATALUÑA". Extremely rare.
1938 Cañonero Calvo Sotelo ship - Villanueva de las Minas (Sevilla).Franchise mark of the ship "CAÑONERO CALVO SOTELO / COMANDANCIA" and censor mark "CAÑONERO - CALVO SOTELO / CENSURA". Arrival backstamp.of March 14, 1938.
1937 Cañonero Calvo Sotelo ship - Villanueva de las Minas (Sevilla).Franchise mark of the ship "CAÑONERO CALVO SOTELO / COMANDANCIA" and censor mark "CAÑONERO - CALVO SOTELO / CENSURA". Cádiz postmark dated on November 20, 1937. Arrival backstamp.
Marks "CORREOS - TARJETA POSTAL GRATUÍTA / CORRESPONDENCIA CON LAS COLUMNAS DE OPERACIONES" and "Elorio'ko Euzko Gudaretxia" (Home of the Basque Soldier of Elorrio).
Sent by the artist Eduard Fiol i Marquès, designer of Girona's local banknotes of 0.25p & 0.50p.
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.
One stamp with double characters on "Correus" and "Cèntims" and the other one with simple characters. Both with inverted center.
Francesc Macià rouletted souvenir sheet violet and black with no serial number. Unlisted variety. Allepuz catalogue lists two other colors of this souvenir sheet with no serial number: 17n (chestnut and black) and 22n (gray and black).
Includes the almost impossible to find 1p value (Allepuz 5) and 5c imperforated variety Allepuz 2s. Extraordinary set.
One stamp with double characters on "Correus" and "Cèntims" and the other one with simple characters. Both with inverted center.
One stamp with double characters on "Correus" and "Cèntims" and the other one with simple characters. Both with inverted center.
Franchise mark "COMANDANCIA MILITAR DE VILLAFRANCA DE CÓRDOBA" and unlisted censor mark "CENSURA MILITAR / VILLAFRANCA". Extremely rare.
Cover from Guareña (Badajoz) to Paris, France, with unlisted censor mark "CENSURA MILITAR / GUAREÑA" in red. Paris arrival backstamp. Very rare.
Antequera postmark dated on January 5, 1937 and double censor: Antequera censor label Heller A104.1 on the back and Algeciras mark Heller A64.1 on the front. Gibraltar arrival backstamp. The consul of Mexico in Gibraltar offered an interlines postal service, communicating people from both zones, Republican and Nationalist.
Cover to Colonia de Niños, from Madrid to Alicante. Many children were moved from Madrid and other cities near the front to safer zones in the coast, where they were hosted in special colonies for children. Unreadable postmarks, but content inside dated on November 27, 1937. Very rare.
Cover from French patrol boat Austral wifh franchise mark "F.M. / Mission ESPAGNE / Patroullieur Austral" and mark "MARINE FRANÁISE - SERVICE A LA MER". Corlay arrival backstamp dated on November 26, 1938. Very rare.
Milícies Antifeixistes de Catalunya field post card to Barcelona, with very rare mark used as franchise reading "División Francico Ascaso / Regimiento / Nº 1 / Durruti / 3º Batallón". No postmark, but text dated on June 13, 1937.
Cover from Miranda de Ebro concetration camp to Switzerland, sent by a Polish prisoner whose info is on the back of the cover: "Rte [Remite] Roman Oswald, Miranda de Ebro (Burgos), C. de Conc. [Campo de Concentración], Comp. [Compañia] Polacos, España".
Mark "Columna Perea - Ingenieros nº 3 - 4a Compañía" on field post card to Valencia. No date. Allepuz 1669.
What makes this lot exceptionall are the dried plants inside, picked up at the Front and preserved in the covers since 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...
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".
Algemesí, Hospital de Sangre, overprinted TABACOS, unlisted Overprint TABACOS handstamped. Unlisted. Overprinted as a local fiscal for tobacco tax and then used by the mail. The postmark ink is on the handstamp ink, which guarantees it's genuinity. Unlisted overprint (Allepuz 1 for the stamp). Extraordiarily rare.
Pi de Llobregat, Macia brown souvenir sheet with displaced overprint and with no serial number, unlisted, MNH
International Brigades cover with Barcelona meter Heller Brig. 8 dated on June 27, 1938 and field post mark Heller Brig. 85 “Correo de Campaña / B.I. / E. De C. B. Movil” dated on June 25, 1938. Censor mark on the back Heller Brig. 5b and arrival postmark from Pas de Calais. Very rare.
Epila, four Souvenir Sheet blue & carmine colour proofs united in uncut block of four. Allepuz 21, RRR.
Spain, Civil War, Epila, four Souvenir Sheet green & carmine colour proofs united in uncut block of four. Allepuz 14, RRR.
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