280 | Pre-philately. Madrid

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1854. PONTON DE LA OLIVA (MADRID) to TARANCON (CUENCA), sent from the Caserna del Presidio del Cerro de la Oliva, Patones. Due to the construction of the Pontón de la Oliva dam for the Canal de Isabel II, a large number of workers were moved, among them more than fifteen hundred prisoners, most of them from the Carlist Wars and a building was built to house them, part of which was used as a prison. Baeza TORRELAGUNA / CAST.LA.N. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE, ESPECIALLY FROM THIS UNUSUAL LOCATION.