Barcelona & Catalonia Cinderellas

Barcelona, Soler Technical Books Printing Works.

Cinderella, issued on the 1950 decade, by Barcelona's stamp dealer "Filatèlia Majó", located on Pelai's street. The founder was Josep Majó Tocabens a notorious philately Publisher with a quite interesting book "Filatèlia y Postas en la Barcelona del XIX" on the post and philately of 19th century Barcelona and some others.
The cinderella, shows an ungly Barcelona Pelai street view. Anyway, the 1939/75 years, were a truly ugly time for our city and for us.




The grandchild of Mr. Majó, still runs a brick and mortar stamp shop in downtown Barcelona, but not in Pelai's street, which is no longer a commercial one but a too turístic area.

June 2003 "Volta Ciclista a Catalunya" (Catalonia's Cycling Tour). From a poster by Antoni Camarasa.

Those are lovely. First time I have seen them, would be a 'must' for any Bicycle topical collection.

Lovely design.

I'm glad to see you back around, Michael. I've already shown some Catalonia's Cycling Tour on this thread. But, recently I bought an smal batch of such mini-sheet (about 20). As the cinderellas come from posters designed by relevant Catalan artists, like Joan Miró or Antoni Tàpies, they gice a view of Catalan art evolution on late XXth and early XXI centúries. I'll upload some more items of this series.

I'll look forward to seeing them.
email on it's way to you Joan.

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"82a Volta Ciclista a Catalunya", 2002 poster by R. Fernández.

Barcelona, October 1958. For their coin & stamps exhibitions the Les Corts branch of the Barcelona's Philatelic and Numismatic Club isued a mini-sheet with four cinderellas showing different views of the old town of Les Corts de Sarrià, since 1897 part of the city of Barcelona.

Old city hall:




A street





Old country house (Masia, in Catalan)




A pine tree (Pinus pinea)standing on the middle of a road (it still is, in 2018!)

Between 1874 and 1936, the "Niu Guerrer" (Warriors' Nest) was a Barcelona humoristic and philantropic association thar organized carnival balls and collected money for humanitary causes. This cinderella was issued on the early years of XXth century

1950-60 years. Cinderella showing the monastery of Sant Llorenç de Munt, close to Terrassa (30 km NW of Barcelona)

Cinderellas issued by the Barcelona-based society "Iberia Cartofilatelica" between 1931 and 1936, showing Spanish writers . Nothing too special or interesting...

"81a Volta Ciclista a Catalunya", June 2001 poster by Toni Batllori (Barcelona, 1951)

Barcelona, 1966. 50 years of Catalonia's Motorbike Club.

Beautiful.
Love the 81Volta sheet, very special poster design. A must for all Cycle topical collectors.

Thank you Mike. There are many "Volta a Catalunya" cinderellas from late 70's to early 2000's. Each one was the work of a well known artist. I've already shown some of them and I'll continue with the others that I've.