Antequera Stamp

Is this another fake stamp? Or am I missing something (again)

Stampdog......

The "Asistenca Social" indicates that it's a fund raiser for Social Assistance......cinderella. Not sure where it's from.

Ok, that's something I need to make a note of. I keep forgetting to look in the Cinderella forum for things like this.

Spanish charity stamp (cinderella) issued in the city of Antequera.

Also not listed in my Edifil Spain and Dependencies...

Collin, I've wanted to get an Edifil Spain catalog for a long time, but was told that it is in Spanish, not English.

Can you confirm it is Spanish only? Thanks in advance!

k

Si.

But it has pictures.

Seriously, this is an excerpt from Rio de Oro:

1907. Alfonso XII.

Número de control al dorso, en azul.
Dentado: 14.
T.: 5.000.

Then it lists each denomination, and color, and it generally has color pictures of each denomination.

I've said it before, but my Spanish is just good enough for a tapas menu, and I can make my way through it. I believe there is a more-specialized Edifil catalog of Spain, only, which I don't have yet.

Collin

Very nice stamp there Stampdog.
Never seen this one.
Colour me green.

The fascination I find behind the Heraldry of stamps....

The arms were given to Antequera by Infante Don Fernando and show in the upper half a Jar of Lilies, emblem of the Order of the Terrace. This Order was re-established in the Kingdom of Castile, having to his sides the lion and the castle, canting symbols of the own Kingdom of Castilla-Leon. The letters AT stand for the name of the town. The original arms showed more letters : A T Q above and P S A below, meaning Antequera Por Su Amor (Antequera for its love).
http://www.ngw.nl/int/spa/a/antequer.htm

"The Order of the Terrace"

These special stories have fallen out of circulation, since the days when the French ladies and gentlemen all read fairy tales together, and the order of the Terrace was instituted for little Louis XV. The Knights of the Order were to play at games on the Terraces at Versailles with his youthful majesty, and then assemble together (specially on their feast day, the day of St. Bartholomew) and spell out fairy stories for the rest of the afternoon. It was not only children who liked fairy tales in those days; there was a general fashion for them.

Thanks for sharing the fruits of your research. It is amazing how many stories can be told by even the lowliest of stamps. (Not to pick on this particular stamp...I like it, too.)

Thanks Cjd.
I remember well, I was collecting stamps, and minding my own business,when I happened to read a page by the late and brilliant Danish collector, Ann Mette Heindorff, about the Etruscans, because there was a link to the first seal of NSW Australia,
"Thus Etruria grew"
I read some books on the Etruscans, then the history of the Vikings,
then the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular wars.
I suddenly found myself hooked on history, with stamps as the glue
that kept all the stories together, with little windows of information enclosed within their patterns.
As we see on this forum, stamp collecting is a vast kaleidoscope of information spokes emanating from the same hub, the humble stamp.

A sibling is found!