Barcelona & Catalonia Cinderellas

Thank you very much Michael for your comments. This is a normal, cheap cinderella with a usual 60's design that I picked just yesterday, as I missed. One more on the stockbook!

Things in Catalonia "are going", not as well as we wish... But, we're doing our best! I hope that everything is fine at your home.

Barcelona, October 1958,landmarks of the old town of les Corts de Sarrià.
Cinderellas already shown here (page 53) but not as a mini-sheet and on another colour.




A gift of a good friend.

Autumn, is mushroom season, and Catalans flock to the forest to pick them.
November, 1987: Catalan Fungi Days on a mushroom area: Sant Hilari Sacalm, on the Montseny mountain range. Edible fungi

Barcelona, November/December 1996. Ist Autumn Fair, showing poisonous mushrooms.

In 2000 Barcelona's second soccer team, RCD Espanyol, celebrated its 100 years and issued some cinderellas:

El Prat de Llobregat, circa 1940. Church rebuilding fund.

1936/39 "Estat Català" a youth organisation from the then ruling party in Catalonia, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. A sicle, cuts the chains of Catalonia's slavery; hence, the starred flag, meaning the fight of Catalonia for freedom.

the previous cinderella of Estat Català is usually presented along with this other:

last year, the shop-keepers' association of the area close to Barcelona's Park Güell, used this likeness of a stamp showing the famous Gaudi's stairs dragon posing as a shopper on Xmas card.




With this, I wish all our SCF friends, a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2019

On August 1963 in the old market-town of Vilafranca del Penedès (60 km SW of Barcelona) there was an stamp exhibition connected to the wine and winery fair, that took place there to celebrate grape's harvest. There isssued on a 200 cinderellas sheet. Here there are some of them:









It can clearly be seen that the quality of these cinderellas, has nothing to to do with the pre-1939 ones. It wasn't until the 1980 decade that it overtook the 1936-39 crack.

Some of the above cinderellas, but on another colour:

1913, Ribes de Freser. Sky competition organized by the "Centre Excursionista de Catalunya", Catalonia's treking club (the third oldest in the world)

Cinderellas, issued in 2002 in Figueres (North of Catalnia) by Omnium Cultural Empordà from paintings of Guillem Rocas I Puig, to commemorate the 100 years of the death of Jacint Verdaguer (Folgueroles,1845 - Vallvidrera, 1902)one of the best known Catalan poets.



On the cinderellas there can be seen some portraits of the poet and the "Pi de les tres Branques" (Three Branches Pine) a tree that symbolizes the three main Catalan-speaking lands: Catalonia, The Balearic Islands and València.

Barcelona, 1944. Hundred years of Barcelona's Savings Bank.

Cursus, that's a very stylish Cinderella, hugely attractive.
But a rather unusual design to my eye to celebrate a Savings Bank.
Is there a story behind it ?

Hope all is well in Barcelona.

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