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Spanish Civil War Encased Postage Token?

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 Posted 09/23/2007  10:19 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Sap the Forgetful needs your help once again. I'm certain I posted this question here on CCF back when I acquired this piece almost exactly a year ago, because the pictures were still sitting there in my "previously downloaded images" file, but blowed if I can find the old thread now. I don't even know which sub-forum I'd have posted it in, but it rightly belongs here in Tokens and Exonumia.

It's an encased postage stamp from Spain, sometime in or shortly after the Civil War period.
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The stamp is a red "El Cid" 10 centimos, issued by the Nationalist faction sometime around 1939. The case is aluminium, and the stamp is protected and held in place by what appears to be a strip of clear photographic film, complete with sprocket-holes.

The back of the casing has the words "Mallorcalzados, Mallorca 259, Junto Paseo Gracia". I initially thought that the use of "Mallorca" meant it must have come from the island of that name, also known as Majorca in the Balearic Islands. But I seem to recall someone here on the forum pointing out that the "Mallorcalzados" is either a shop, a street or a mall in Barcelona, on the Spanish mainland? Barcelona is the only place in Spain listed in my World Notgeld book recorded as having issued "encased or unencased stamp money".

It may not even be a real encased postage token; for all I know, it's just somebody who recycled an old milk bottle top to help keep their stamps nice and dry. But I bought it in a coin dealer's scratchtray, so we'll assume it's numismatic until I'm told otherwise.

Any ideas?
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 Posted 09/27/2007  05:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No world encased postage experts?

I did a bit more Googling and finally came across an interesting and relevant site: this article on the Mid Island Coin Club site. The second example from the bottom, under "Spain", is a very close match; though not the same issuer, it's obviously the same manufacturer. That one is a Barcelona piece.

The website says these were issued between the Nationalist victory in 1938 and the resumption of small-denomination coinage issues in 1940. With a 1939-issued stamp inside, mine can be even more precisely dated. The site also says most of these tokens "were from the Barcelona area".

So my doubts are erased; it's definitely a privately-issued encased postage stamp token from the Barcelona area. I would still like to know more precise details on "Mallorcalzados", whoever or wherever that is. Right now, if you Google that word, this CCF thread is the only page that comes up.
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Sap, I remember when you posted about this a while back so you are no going crazy

Unfortunately, I do not remember the answer but I seem to remember that the person that responded was a drive-by poster (possibly from Spain?). Surely that old post has to exist somewhere, maybe you could talk to Bobby about scouring the site for it? I am sure you searched and I spent about 20 minutes searching the forum myself with no luck...
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