Spain In Morocco 19?? And A Perfin For My Friends...

Found a couple of, IMHO, beautiful pages today; need some help and wanted to share. Since the SG was just ordered, can anyone give me a hand in ID and history? I know there was a "war" between Spain and Morocco in the early 1900's but little beyond that. These would fit well in to the emgraved thread I think too.

First page and stamps down to triangular
Pope pious 11 and king alfonso13 sg637 >652 (old cat)
catacombs restoration fund set
Issued at santiago
16 in set 2c to 5p


triangular
sg754 (pld cat) recess printed (nina, pinta,santa maria)
(la swabs favourite stamp IIRC)


rest: spanish morocco (nice de la rue stamps)

mosque at alcazarquivir
SGM125 onwards (old cat)

other design moorish gateway larache

the right hand value tablets are
inscribed cs and ct respectively

First perfin I have seen on span mor

The triangle is a regular postal issue from 1930.

The pope-and-king stamps are semi-postals, which raised money for the rebuilding of catacombs in Rome. They are part of a huge set (32 stamps). There are two "series" in the set, Toledo and Santiago, and some of the values have two colors in each series, which explains why you have 4 different 2c stamps. If you care about catalogue value, yours top out at about 30 cents in Scott.

The Spanish Morocco stamps look to be from the 1928-32 series of 15 stamps. They depict a mosque, and a Moorish Gateway.

BTW: just 200Km South of the "Moorish gateway Larache"
was where Bogey met Bacall :)
"Of all the gin joints........"

WOW. The Pope & King ones are beautiful.

I wonder if there is any significance
in the use of CDS and squared cancellation postmarks
of Spain.
We see lots of each in this period.