Barcelona & Catalonia Cinderellas

Barcelona, May1908. 50 years since the revival of the "Jocs Florals" (medieval poetry competition). From a poster by Ramon Casas.

Barcelona, years 1950-60 Stamp collecting shop.

Barcelona ca. 1980. Cinderella issued by a Technical Books Publisher.

Tarragona (100 km South of Barcelona). Cinderella, advertising the "Hotel de París" and showing the "Arc de Berà" a late 1st century Roman triomph arch, on the Via Augusta, the Roman road leading from the Pyrenees to Cadiz, Spain. Ca. 1925.

Barcelona 1960s. "Watch TV on an Iberia set".

Barnafil'98 Stamp and Coins fair. Barcelona April-May 1998. Old ships.

Barcelona, 1974, Children and Youth Fair.

Cinderellas, issued by Barcelona's Stamps and Coins Traders Gild in 2014 to remember the 300 years of the fall of Barcelona to the Franco-Spanish army on the Spanish Succession war.





Black prints of the above

Sant Hilari Sacalm, 1969, "The Village of the 100 fountains"

Catalonia's pigeon's federation.

very interesting cinderellas, Cursus! all new to me!

~John

1936/39 war: "Help the Red Cross"

Lleida, Western Catalonia 1948

Granollers (65.000, 2025) is a market town 27 km NE of Barcelona. It's the capital of the comarca (Catalan equivalent to English shire) of the Vallès Oriental. By 1954, the local branch of Barcelona'a Philatelic and Numismatic Club, organized an Exhibition and issued a 20 cinderellas sheet on 5 different colours, that sold for 2 pesetas each. The cinderellas, show landmarks of Granollers and the Vallès Oriental.

Hello Cursus, what a great thread you have started and curated for more than a decade! I just discovered this thread, and am astounded at the diversity and quantity of stamps that have been produced.

I stumbled upon an old "album" of the Catalanist movement propaganda stamps, titled: The propaganda symbols of the separatist movements in Spain, 1899-1901". The album language is German, so the album was likely designed and printed in Germany.

The album is tattered, and pages toned and brittle, but there is a wonderful historical description of the movement and more than 500 stamps (many are color variations of a single design, or panes of se-tenant stamps).

Some of the stamps in the album I have seen in this amazing thread, but there are also many that have not been shown.

I would like to share some of the album pages, but am not sure that the scans will be able to show the detail to be visually useful. Nonetheless, here are some pages to start:

Front cover (tattered)



Title page with description of Catalanist movement history



Description of stamp issue listing arrangement of album