Lot 1306
San Sebastian, 10c overprint for proposed Express Mail Service to Madrid (Edifil 19), on cover postmarked 6 (?) Nov 1937 along with two 15c Arenals and unissued 10c Primo de Rivera (Ed. NE15), cover bears all the required handstamps in violet, a VF and rare cover. Seriously undervalued in Edifil. Includes a descriptive background article.
Estimate 400 - 600
This service was proposed at the end of 1936 to carry mail from San Sebastian to Madrid once that city was liberated from the Republicans, which the local nationalists assumed would be by the spring or summer of 1937. In fact, Madrid did not fall until near the end of the war in April of 1939. As a result all mail that was turned over to the post office for this service was held until after the war, at which time it was either returned to the sender, if they could be found, or likely, in most cases, destroyed. 500 stamps were initially overprinted for this service and a second printing of 200 was made when the first was sold out. The number of covers that survived is necessarily quite small.
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| Realized $425 |
