Barcelona & Catalonia Cinderellas

Thank you for your words Mike.
We don't have great dealers (better to look in the net), but we had, and still have, very good artists and designers. Catalan arts it's among the finest in the world.

As for your visit, anytime is good and you'll be very welcomed to Catalonia, Mike.

1913 Barcelona Spanish Metallurgic Industry Congress.

Just bought today at Barcelona's stamp market:

25th anniversary of Reus (100 km SW of Barcelona) Philatelic Club: a
stamp collector.

Today I feel vindictive, and I think this vignette interesting when in 1901 he published "In defense of the rights of Catalonia before Spanish Parliament". Only 112 years ago and counting ...

Concerning the previous post we can say that the artist could be Tubau because despite not being signed there is reasonable evidence that the author was he.

August 1960, 11th Stamp Exhibition of Gràcia. 16 cinderellas sheet devoted to the International Red Cross, written in the compulsory Spanish language. You can see the red cross as well as three lilies, arms of the former township of Gràcia (up to 1897), now a thriving Barcelona neighborhood.

Second National Congress of Spanish Tailors. Arms of the Barcelona Tailor's Guild.

1914 Catalonia sheet of 20 Esperanto cinderellas. Some of them have already appeared on this thread, but not yet in sheet. As Melic said, they come in a number of colours. Although no there's no face value, I guess that it should be 5 cents of pesseta (our currency by then); thus, making the whole sheet be sold at the very suitable price of 1 pesseta.





There's nor a printing house name, neither any authors signature. But, seeing that a cinderella:





Has the writing: "Joan Amades Collector of Esperanto magazines and stamps , Peu de la Creu, 10 Barcelona". And knowing that there was a Joan Amades I Gelat (Barcelona,1890-1959) who was Catalan traditions researcher and writer, as well as a keen Esperanto activist and newsagent, it's easy to guess that the cinderellas were printed (or at least commissioned) by him.

Some info on these cinderellas:
1/1.- Three Branches Pine-tree, in Central Catalonia. The 3 branches are the sister lands: Balearic Islands, Valencia and Catalonia
1/2.- Tarragona Province Esperanto Federation: Roman Aqueduct (more information on previous pages)
1/3.- Semo Barcelona, 1914
1/4.- 4th Catalonia Esperanto Floral Games (poetry contest dating from middle ages)in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
1/5.- Catalan Esperanto Federation

2/1.- Lev Tolstoi (Iasnaia Poliana Tula 1828 - Astapovo, Riazan, 1910), with the Catalan text: "The effort that is needed to learn Esperanto is so small, and benefits which derive from it are so huge, that no one can refuse to learn it"
2/2 & 2/3.- Semo Barcelona, 1914
2/4.- Cliffs
2/5.- 4th Catalonia Esperanto Floral Games

3/1.- 5th Congress of the Catalan Esperanto Federation. Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
3/2.- Inauguration of the Barcelona Esperanto Society. View of Barcelona.
3/3 & 3/4.- 2nd Carnival of the Catalan Esperanto society.
3/5.- Inauguration of the Barcelona Esperanto Society.

4/1. & 4/2.- 5th Congress of the Catalan Esperanto Federation. Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
4/3.- 4th Catalonia Esperanto Floral Games (poetry contest dating from middle ages)in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
4/4.- Joan Amades (see up)
4/5.- Tarragona Province Esperanto Federation: Roman Berà Arch (more information on previous pages)

Effectively as pointed Cursus, Joan Amades was a great promoter of Esperanto as subsidiary or additional language. On a sheet of Esperanto vignettes of the time reads "Eldonisto: Joan Amades ..."

Missed some of these and now it's time to sleep I know I cannot......

....the stuff of dreams.

Even a Flag in there too ! And the Tailors label......

What a lovely sheet! (If only it were green... )

Valls (100 km SW of Barcelona). February 1931 Candlestick's Feast.

June 24th Saint John (Sant Joan in Catalan) is considered the Catalan Speaking Lands National Day.
For this reason, tomorrow a fire will be started on Mount Canigó (now in French territory) using the Sun light. This fire will travel to start bonfires through all lands that share a common language and heritage as a symbol of brotherhood. From Perpinyà (now, SE France) to Alacant (SE Spain, by now).
Some cinderellas have been issued. A mini-sheet of four ones was printed in Perpinyà (Catalonia of the North) in 1986 to commemorate Catalonia's independence (from France) Millenium.






There you can see some postcard issued in Northern Catalonia to commemorate Canigó's Flame (as we call it). On the third, you can see the portrait of cello player Pau Casals (el Vendrell, Catalonia, 1876 - Puerto Rico, USA, 1973) who was exilied in Northern Catalonia and held some J.S. Bach music festivals in Prada de Conflent.

These are only tangentially related to the topic, but since they are cinderellas, and they do seem to have a connection to Catalonia, I'll add a couple examples from the unissued Andorra airmail set of 1934, apparently intended for a flight service between Andorra and Barcelona.








These are in the non-Scott airmail thread, too, so it doesn't cost much bandwidth to put them here. Too remote of a connection? I hope not.

You did very well.

Andorra, are actually some Catalan valleys that, by chances of the history, have remained free; instead of falling on Spanish, Italian or French hands.
Everything there, is Catalan: language, culture, laws, traditions...

Barcelona (2 million)is the closest big city to the tiny (22.000) Andorra's capital, Andorra la Vella (less than 200 km, 2,5 hours driving), and we have also a very good relationship with Andorra's people.

So, anything related to Andorra, is also related to Catalonia.