Spanish Civil War

|ENVELOPE| 858(2). 1939. 40 cts dark violet, two stamps. Certificate from NOREÑA (ASTURIAS) to NEW YORK (USA). On the front marked MILITARY CENSORSHIP / NOREÑA, in violet and on the back arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE.
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858. 1939. 40 cts violet. ALMUÑECAR to PARTHENAY (FRANCE). Mark CENTER DES REFUGIES / DE PARTHENAY / DEUX SEVRES, in violet and arrival on the back. BEAUTIFUL AND RARE.
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874, 875. 1939. 70 blue cts and 1 slate pts. MADRID to GURS (FRANCE) (aimed at the Gurs CTE workers camp). BEAUTIFUL AND RARE WITH DESTINATION TO A REFUGEE CAMP.
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874(2). 1939. 70 blue cts, two stamps. Certificate from MANRESA to PARTHENAY (FRANCE), addressed to the Spanish Refugee Camp. On the front brand CENTER DES REFUGIES / DE PARTHENAY / DEUX SEVRES, in purple. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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885, 858. 1939. 2 pts green and 40 cts violet. BARCELONA to VERNET (FRANCE), initially established as a reception camp but finally converted into a disciplinary camp by interning extremist refugees and combatants of the International Brigades. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. Blue 90 cts from France with "F" surcharge. VERNET D'ARIEGE to GURS (FRANCE). Sent by a Spaniard from the Vernet camp and addressed to another in the Gurs camp, on the front oval mark CAMP DE VERNET / (ARIEGE) / LE VAGEMESTRE and arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge. MIGNE AUXANCES to MONTDIDIER (FRANCE). The CTE 96, 97, 98 and 99 Foreign Workers Companies were located in Migne Auxances, and a small colony of Spanish refugees was located in Montdidier. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
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1940. 90 blue cts from France, surcharge "F". ARGELES SUR MER to GURS (FRANCE). CAMP ARGELES SUR MER / PYR ORLES postmark and censor mark. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE LETTER BETWEEN REFUGEE CAMPS.
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1940. 50 cts light blue and 1.75 cts blue FRANCE stamps. LANGRES to BREDA (GERONA), and forwarded to BARCELONA. Written in the Langres Internment Camp (Frontstalag 123). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. 1´25 fr pink, two French stamps. ARGELES SUR MER (FRANCE) to MADRID (Sent by a Spanish refugee from the 143 CTE (company of Spanish workers) of the Campo de Argeles Sur Mer). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge. GURS to MARSEILLE (FRANCE), sent by a boarding school of the Cuban group of Company 257. Postmark CAMP DE GURS / BASSES PYRENEES. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. PERPIÑAN to PARIS, probably written from one of the nearby Refugee Camps. Postmark PERPIGNAN RP / PYRENEES ORLES and manuscript FM MAGNIFICA.
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1940. 2´50 green fr from France. GURS to GENEVA (SWITZERLAND). Postmark CAMP DE GURS / BASSES PYRENEES. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. 1 f pink and 3 f orange. LE VERNET TO GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) (referred by a Spanish intern). The Vernet Internment Camp became a Concentration or Disciplinary Camp for extremist Spaniards and foreigners, on the front marked CAMP DE CONCENTRATION / VERNET / D´ARIEGE. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. 1´25 fr pink, two stamps and 5 fr blue, two stamps, both from France. LE VERNET to NEW YORK (USA). The Vernet camp began to receive refugees and soldiers, but it became a disciplinary camp by interning Spanish Republicans and extremist International Brigades, in this case it is sent by a German interned in this camp, on the front it marks CAMP DU VERNET / ( ARIEGE) / LE VAGUEMESTRE. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE.
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1940. 90 cts blue from France, surcharge F. LE BARCARES to NANTES. Postmark CAMP LE BARCARES / PYR.ORLES (at the outbreak of World War II it was placed under the military authority of the Vichy Government and the Camp was used as a concentration point for Foreign Workers Companies such as the GTE or the CTE). MAGNIFICENT.
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1940. 90 cts blue France, overprint F. BRAM to BORDEAUX (written by a Spanish interned in Campo de Bram). Postmark BRAM / AUDE and marks CAMP DE REFUGIES ESPAGNOLS / DE BRAM LE VAGUEMESTRE and RETOUR ENVOYEUR / ANNULE on the front, arrival at the Bram camp a month and a few days later on the back. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge. BOURG EN BRESSE to PARIS, sent by a Spaniard from the 145th Regional Battalion-48 Compagnie, of the GTE (Spanish Workers Groups). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge. PERPIÑAN to PARIS, sent by a Spaniard integrated in the organization of Passive Defense-Barracón de Enseñanza. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge. Interior Mail of PERPIGNAN, most likely sent by a Spanish refugee. On the front mark COMMANDEMENT DES TRANSPORTS... / LE VAGUEMESTRE. MAGNIFICENT.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge. ARGELES SUR MER to PERPIGNA. Postmark CAMP.ARGELES SUR MER / PYR.ORLES and on the front GENIE DES CAMPS / ARGELES / SUR-MER, in violet. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge and blue 10 cts. ARGELES SUR MER to PARIS, sent by a Spaniard interned in the Campo de Argeles. Postmark CAMP ARGELES SUR MER / PYR.ORLES. MAGNIFICENT.
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1940. Blue France 90 cts with "F" surcharge. ARGELES SUR MER to GURS, sent from Campo de Argeles and addressed to Campo de Gurs, sent by Ada Grossi and addressed to Carmine Cesar Grossi, her husband, a well-known anti-fascist lawyer based in Barcelona who ended up in a disciplinary camp like Gurs for his campaign against Franco through his Barcelona radio station. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE CIRCULATED BETWEEN DIFFERENT FIELDS.
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|ABOUT|1940. 90 cts blue from France, overprint F. ARGELES SUR MER to TOULOUSE. Postmark CAMP ARGELES SUR MER / PYR.ORLES, arrival on the back. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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|ABOUT|1940. 90 cts blue from France, overprint F. BRAM to ARGELES SUR MER, sent by a Spanish refugee from Campo de Brans to another from Campo de Argeles Sur Mer. Postmark BRAM / AUDE, on the back mark CAMP DE REFUGIES ESPAGNOLS / DE / BRAM / LE VAGUEMESTRE, in violet and arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE CIGoodULATED BETWEEN DIFFERENT INTERNMENT OR REFUGEE CAMPS.
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|ENVELOPE|1940. 90 cts blue from France, surcharge F. Interior Mail from ANGOULEME, most likely sent from the "Alliers Camp", which was used until September 1940, to intern Spanish refugees. On the front marks PREFECTURE DE LA CHARENTE / CENTRE / DES / REFUGIES / COMMISSARIAT SPECIAL, on the back arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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|ABOUT|1940. 90 cts blue from France, surcharge F. AUDIERNE to GURS, sent by a Spanish refugee interned in the Audierne-Beausejour Camp, which until June 1940 housed Spanish refugees in an old factory and addressed to a Spanish refugee interned in the Gurs Camp. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN REFUGEE CAMPS.
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|ABOUT|1940. 90 cts blue, F surcharge and 10 cts blue, both from France. SOUSTONS to GURS, sent by a refugee interned in the Chateau Richer and addressed to the Postman of the Gurs Camp. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE CIGoodULATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT REFUGEE CAMPS.
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|ABOUT|1940. 90 cts blue from France, surcharge F. ARGELES SUR MER to CHATIAN CLAIRFONS, sent by a Spanish refugee in the Argeles Sur Mer Camp and addressed to a Spaniard of the 122nd Company of Spanish Workers and returned to the sender, most likely due to an error in the destination. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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|ABOUT|1940. 90 cts blue from France, surcharge F. LA CHAMBRE to SAINT CYPRIEN, sent by a Spaniard from the 5th Company of Spanish Workers and addressed to the Saint Cyprien Concentration Camp. Arrival on the reverse. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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|ABOUT|1940. 90 cts blue from France, surcharge F. LA CHAMBRE to PARIS, sent by a Spaniard from the 5th Company of Spanish Workers (return flap missing on the back). Mark 5ª COMPAGNIE DE / TRAVAILLEURS ESPAGNOLES / LE VAGUEMESTRE, in violet. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE.
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|ABOUT| 925. 1940. 40 cts green gray. VEGADEO (ASTURIAS) to EL PASO (USA). On the front it marks MILITARY CENSURE / VEGADEO, in black. MAGNIFICENT.
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1941. 5 fr French chestnut. Certificate from RIVESALTES to BARCELONA. Sent from Campo (GTE 157) de Rivesaltes and arrival back. MAGNIFICENT AND UNUSUAL CERTIFIED LETTER FROM A REFUGEE CAMP.
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1941. 2'50 fr from France. LE BARCARES to MADRID, sent by a Spaniard at 143 GTE of Campo Marechal Joffre, also called Camp de Rivesaltes and arrival on the back. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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1941. 3 fr violet and 5 fr chestnut, both from France. Certificate from AGDE to MADRID. Postmark CAM D´AGDE / HERAULT and MADRID / GC / EXENTA mark on the front. After the departure of the Spanish refugees in 1940, it became a Concentration Camp for foreigners, this camp was dismantled in the fall of 1943. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE CERTIFIED LETTER FROM AN INTERNMENT CAMP.
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1941. 70 cts blue and 5 cts sepia. MADRID to GURS (sent from the Private Secretariat of HE the Head of State and addressed to the Gurs Refugee Camp to Juan Gualtero Cano, a former Republican officer who, upon leaving the Gurs camp, emigrated to Monterrey in Mexico where he dedicated himself to the philatelic trade ). On the front, MINISTERE DE L´INTERIEUR / DIRECTON GENERALE / DE LA SURETE NATIONALE / DIRECTION DU CAMP DE GURS / CENSURE / Nº4, in purple. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE.
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|ABOUT|1941. 2´50 f blue from France. Letter (with text) from ORPIERRE to BAGoodELONA, sent by a Spanish nurse from the 95th Spanish Workers Group, established in this small town in the Hautes-Alpes department. MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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|ENVELOPE| 925. 1941. 40 cts green-grey. CANDAS (ASTURIAS) to AVILES, reissued to MADRID. On the front marks MILITARY CENSORSHIP / CIVIL GUARD / CANDAS (OVIEDO), in violet and on the back arrival. MAGNIFICENT AND VERY RARE.
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1942. 60 orange cts, block of four. CORREZE to BRIVE (addressed to a Spaniard from the Group of Foreign Workers Nº68). MAGNIFICENT AND RARE.
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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National Zone. Military Censorship National Side
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