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Postal History of Spain

Deutsche Version ||| Versión Español


I'm interested in the following material, regardless of size, and quite tolerant to commercially used condition

My collecting interest is postal history of Spain, past and present.


Prephilatelic & stampless covers (domestic, outgoing and incoming mail) || Used stationery (domestic, foreign and uprated)
COD (remboursement) || Express (domestic and foreign) || Declared value mail (V-mail, insured)
Registered/AR
(domestic and foreign) || Postal packet fronts/packet bulletins (bulletin d'expedition)
General delivery (Poste Restante, domestic) || Airmail (domestic and foreign) || Foreign surface mail
Printed matter
(domestic and foreign) || Sample of no value mail || Taxed items and reclaimed stamps
Censored mail
(domestic and foreign) || Spanish territories/colonies (all kind of commercially used stuff)

However feel free to offer anything, except FDCs and other philatelic items!

Please click thumbnails to see pictures enlarged!

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Folded entire cover London - Jerez de la Frontera (1830). French transit postmark "ANGLETERRE" and Spanish "11R" mark. (Postage fee of 11 Reales for incoming mail from Great Britain to southern Spain). Folded cover sent from Madrid to Trujillo April 10th 1850. Since at that time there still were used postage stamps in Spain, the addressee had to pay one Real for this letter as being "unfranked". Folded letter from Madrid to Sevilla sent in February 1857 showing a little experimental canceller from Madrid (El circular de Madrid). Folded cover from Ecija to Madrid (1861) with the scarce "Cartwheel" cancellation No. 53. Double rated folded cover bearing two 2 Reales stamps from Madrid to Manila "via Suez y Marsella" (November 1863). Spain's first postal stationery card used with the "Araña" (= Spider) cancel of Granada in 1874 to Malaga.
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A postal stationery card, uprated and used in 1880 when inland postage incorporated the war tax. UPU card used 1894 from Madrid to Paris. The 5 Centimos stamp was added for the "Alcance" service. Registered UPU card sent in 1896 to Germany. Registration fee was 25 Céntimos. A UPU stationery card used to Beira/Mocambique in 1901; transit cancellations from a French steamer to La Reunion. Uprated domestic stationery card used December 1939 from Bilbao to Germany Uprated domestic card sent by airmail from Mallorca to Germany in 1935
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Single 1 Centimo use as postal rate for newspapers sent by the editor 1925 - sent from Barcelona to Canada. Registered cover sent in 1894 to Germany. Multiple franking of five 15 Centimos for the 75 Centimos rate. Registered single letter from Barcelona to Malta (1901). The use of two 20 Centimos and five 2 Centimos stamps is quite uncommon. Airmail cover sent 1926 from Larache (Marrocco) to the famous Spanish stamp dealer Manuel Galvez in Madrid. A beautiful three colour franking on airmail card sent May 1939 to Germany. Registered airmail cover from Barcelona to Alexandria/Egypt via London, July 1946.
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Express cover to France, February 1930. Spain first allowed Epress letters to foreign countries in 1928. Registered Express cover to France, September 9, 1986. The rate for foreign letters had changed on Sept. 1st of that year. A nice "Urgente" (= Express) cover from Barcelona to Santander, 12.14.1931; second weight. A COD cover sent December 1941 from Barcelona to the Canary Islands. Declared value cover sent August 1901 from Bilbao to Germany. Cover sent to Switzerland 1935 bearing a "reclaimed" stamp of 10 Centimos cancelled "RECLAMADO".
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A private stationery cover (Alegoria de la República) from 1933. Double censored surface mail postal card used in 1944 from Sta. Cruz de Tenerife to Cracow - at this time under German occupation. Airmail cover from Malaga to Flensburg/Germany July 1943, showing a very good strike of TPO "Malaga-Expreso". Commercially used part of a reply-card from Cuba to Germany in 1880. Packet bulletin from Las Palmas (Canary Islands) sent by airmail to Bombay (India) in 1985. Wrapper used for a newspaper up to 100 grams sent at reduced rate (50%) to Germany in 1975.


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