By Carles Prats. Introduction Republican labor camps and prisons are much less known that Francoist concentration camps and jails, because they lasted much less in time and concerned much less people. But brutality was similar in detention centers of both sides fighting the civil war. Some of these Republican prisons or camps are often remembered
By Carles Prats. Vinebre inverted center stamps are some of the rarest locals of the Spanish civil war philately. The few known are on covers addressed to the dealer G. Resten in Paris, truly circulated, or to the company Zumstein & Co in Switzerland, with souvenir postmarks on covers that never went through the mail.
By Carles Prats. We have detected a worrying and growing presence in some nonprofessional, online auction sites of forgeries imitating Republican local war tax stamps. Some of these values were listed by Luis Alemany in the Sofima-Fesofi “Catálogo de los sellos «locales» emitidos durante la guerra civil española 1936-1939” (Correos y Telégrafos, 1995) and by