Help Please With Spain Type A54

A couple of these match the design of Scott 371/2 but color and year are wrong. Any help greatly appreciated.
Paul

Listed in Edifil Catalogue.



Stanley Gibbons

1.- Edifil Barcelona 10. Issued in 1932-35
2.- Edifil Barcelona 4. Issued in 1929-31
3.- Edifil Barcelona 9. Issued in 1932-35
4.- Edifil Barcelona 1. Issued in 1929-31
5.- Edifil Barcelona 3. Issued in 1929-31

I'm afraid that the value for these stamps is minimal.

Thanks both. No concern about the value, just curious what they were.

These stamps were a mail tax to pay for the 1929 Barcelona Expo debt. Their use was compulsory for all domèstic mail going from Barcelona province (Catalonia). They remained in use until 1947. By then, the debt was paid many times. By 1929, 5 cents was not a triffle as the Spanish domèstic mail faré was 15 cents.

Curiously, no tax was never imposed to cover the 1929 Seville Expo debt, which was far greater than the Barcelona one...

Nice information Cursus,
these pop up regularly, in queries.