Barcelona & Catalonia Cinderellas

Cobi rowing and playing tennis and ping-pong.

Great stuff Cursus. So many wonderful Cinderellas from one area....amazing.

Well deserving of a 12-page thread.



Londonbus1

Thank you very much LB for your nice comments. But we are not speaking of "an area" but a country (not yet free) of: 32.000 sq.km, 7.5 million people (not counting the, French-occupied, Northern Catalonia) and 2.700 busy years of history. That's a lot, even for European standards!
Not being an specialist, I've got material for a 100 pages thread

November 1929 Vilanova I la Geltrú, 3rd Penedès Art Show. The Penedès (written here as "Panades") is a "comarca", Catalan equivalent to British counties. It's written is Spanish (even the town's name, spelled "Villanueva y Geltru") as we were, as often, under a military dictatorship (1923-1929) and they forced everything to be written in Spanish, banning Catalan.
The aesthetics of the cinderellas is that of the "Nou-centisme".

Maybe I should just visit Barcelona and see the collection !
I can drool for a time then go home happy

And I just love Barcelona !

email on the way.

A cinderella issued in Barcelona in 1937 by the "SIA" (Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista - International Antifascist Solidarity) to get money for the republican struggle.

Barcelona 1957 Fair, Esperanto cinderellas. On the middle of the stamp there can be seen the geographical shape of our city with the two mountains (Tibidabo and Montjuïc)and the plane in-between

Cobi at five more sports: Olympic shooting, Archery, Handball, Sailing and Tae kwondo

Just to end with the Cobi series: Skating Hockey, very popular on the Western European Mediterranean countries, as both ice and grass are rare and expenssive; and Jai Alai or Basque (from the Basque Country, or Euzkadi) Ball. Not too popular in Catalonia, but widely spread on the Basque Country (Gulf of Biscay shore, both in Spain and France).

October 21st 1923, 3rd Penya Rhin Grand Prix on the Vilafranca del Penedès (60 km South of Barcelona)circuit.

Now that is one hot rod stamp. Great design and art work.
Makes you want to be there in the driver's seat.

Barcelona Province Government Savings Bank cinderellas, from around 1950. On the second one, there's a "Mosso d'Esquadra", today Catalonia's Police.

1959 Gracia's (Barcelona district) stamp show cinderellas. Quite ugly, but it's what we had by then...

Cursus, the one with the cave paintings on it, can we see a close up of that one if possible please? Thanks.

Here you've it.




Thank you for your interest, but they're not real paintings, but the artist's interpretation of the cave paintings found in Southern Catalonia and in other areas of the East of the Iberian peninsula,like these: