Catalonia's cinderellas |
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Londonbus1
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 October 2017 at 02:54 |
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cursus
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 October 2017 at 03:22 |
Thank you Michael.
These, are politicaly complicated days. As soon as things settle somewhat, we'll be able to start thinking on issuing commemorative cinderellas; although not many people write letters today. So they not even know about stamps! We'll do our best!
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IslandPost
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 October 2017 at 01:17 |
Many thanks for bringing these great stamps to light. Looking forward to more of your posts!
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 November 2017 at 00:49 |
In 1914 there was a printer's lock-out in Barcelona. The reason is unknown to me; but, in the years before the wellfare state, that meant missery for the families of the printing workers. To help them, some of the Barcelona's artists drawn 20 cinderellas to be sold for the benefit of the printers.
Each cinderella had a face value of 5 cents of pesseta (our currency between 1868 and 2001) and went on sheets of 20 different items. So, a sheet sold for 1 pesseta. The text, in Catalan, says "Socors per a la vaga Forçosa, Barcelona 1914" (Help for the forced strike, Barcelona 1914) Printed in trichromy, you can see many differents designs depending on each artists style, but the one that I like most is the shadow of an iddle printing machine... In these days, printing was equal to people's education and culture. |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 November 2017 at 00:53 |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 November 2017 at 00:55 |
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Colin
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 November 2017 at 01:08 |
Wow! Some very beautifully crafted hand-lettering there. Did anyone record the names of the individual artists involved or was that considered too risky?
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 November 2017 at 20:34 |
Actually, it's a quite well studied cinderella sheet. Two friends of mine (both, from Barcelona) have written three articles on philatelic magazines on this subject. Between them and my self, have managed to identify the authors of most cinderellas. There was not risk at all. They were just well known artists, helping the printer's workers. It was charity, not polítics. With some friends, we're cataloging Catalan cinderellas, and already know the artists who designed a great number of them |
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 November 2017 at 20:39 |
Bartomeu Robert, was a Medical doctor, major of Barcelona and Catalan political activist. This cinderella dates from early XX century
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 25 November 2017 at 20:00 |
The 1914 printers' strike cinderella sheet, was printed at Oliva de Vilanova Printing Works in Barcelona. The iddle printing Machine was designed by the owner of the works. Originated on the coastal town of Vilanova i la Geltrú (60 South of Barcelona) on late XIX century, it was later transfered to Barcelona, where it become quite successful, doing a lot of artistical printing, including a lot of Barcelona City Council local revenue stamps and cinderellas. They closed on the early years of the 1980 dècade.
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