Description
Spanish Civil War airmail: 25 Jan 1937 postmarked air mail cover sent from PALMA DE MALLORCA (Balearic Islands) to BRESLAU (Wroclaw) Germany, franked 1.25 pesetas + 10c Nationalist local issue Pro-Paro adhesive tax stamp (vertically misperforated at left-center) & tied by 3x strikes of the local postmark; routing endorsed "by air to Rome" in Spanish (manuscript) & French (red typewriting at base); slit open & resealed at base by the censor + tied by CENSURADA censor handstamp on front; backstamped 1 Feb ROME transit; slit open at top.
The Pro-Paro tax stamp was one of many types issued in locales within Nationalist control during the civil war to help support social needs as a result of the war, enacted by decree of 14 August 1936; these stamps were applied to virtually every type of transaction, and here in PALMA their proceeds helped pay for the contruction of a new large post office on Avenida Jose Astenio. Here the correspondents, especially the addressee, may be Jewish.
