#Spanish airmail series#

Pigeons were used during the 1870вЂ“71 Siege of Paris to bring messages back to the city. In the Middle Ages, Egyptian sultans established their own National Pigeon Post. The caliph of Baghdad, Nur-Eddin, established his own homing pigeon post from Cairo to the Euphrates river, :вЂЉ253 but it terminated after the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258. :вЂЉ253 Prior to this it was used mainly in the orient. It was brought to Europe by crusaders in the 12th and 13th centuries. In the Middle Ages the homing pigeon was also in great demand for message delivery. A particular example was his use of carrier pigeons to communicate the disturbances in conquered Gaul. The Roman commander Julius Caesar used this special method to send commands to his troops as quickly as possible. Soon, pigeons were also used by several other advanced cultures. In 1279 B.C., the news of the coronation of pharaoh Ramesses II was spread by this method. More and more military, political, and economic importance was attributed to this fast method of delivering messages. The earliest known records of homing pigeon use for message delivery in ancient Egypt are from 5600 B.C. Nineteenth century oil paining of a young oriental lady with a carrier pigeon and its mail such as the Zeppelins, which were used until the 1930s. Cite error: A tag is missing the closing (see the help page). The same method was employed in May 1807 by Admiral Cochrane to send propaganda messages to the French during the Napoleonic Wars and again during the Peninsular Campaign. :вЂЉ188 The Chinese are recorded as having used kites to deliver messages to a beleaguered city in AD 549. :вЂЉ13 In ancient times messages were delivered by airmail through various breeding methods it became possible to use homing pigeons to carry communications, though tame frigatebirds were used in the South Pacific Ellice Islands in the mid-19th century. Arrows with tiny scrolls attached were a common form of short distance communication. During the 5th century seige of Potidaea messages attached to arrow shafts were fired from behind the besieging lines and a traitor within the city received these missives. The origins of airmail reach back to long before the invention of the first flying machines.

3.1 Unofficial and semi-official airmail stamps.

1.7.2 Modern airmail and the influence of philately.

1.3 Invention of the airplane and early flights.

The commemorative emission of this centenary has been made in the form of a die that simulates a biplane that in its flight drops the correspondence. In 1921 the air postal service between Seville and Larache, capital of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, was inaugurated, which will be carried out by the Spanish company CETA (Air Traffic Air Company) founded by Jorge Loring.

The inauguration of the first Spanish mail airline promoted the subsequent development of air mail in Spain, establishing over the years new postal lines between Seville and Larache, Malaga and Melilla, and Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca, demanding from then, by royal decree, that the airlines were Spanish.

#Spanish airmail series#

This resolution culminated with a whole series of laws and work commissions that had previously tried to introduce airmail to the Spanish postal service with various measures such as the training of pilots within the body of Post officers, the creation of a negotiated Special for вЂњair servicesвЂќ or the вЂњProject of bases for the implantation of Air Mail in SpainвЂќ.

In these circumstances, the Spanish government promulgated a Royal Decree on Octoto establish the air postal service in Spain, within the coordinates and guidelines that the nation was interested in, and officially contracting with LatГ©coГЁre for the transportation by plane of the mail within Spain.

A line that covered the route Barcelona - Alicante - Malaga, although it had its starting point in Toulouse, where the headquarters of the airline LatГ©coГЁre that operated the flight was located.ДЇor some years, LatГ©coГЁre, had tried to link France with its colonies in Africa, managing in September 1919 to link Toulouse with Casablanca, with stops in Spain. They were part of the opening ceremony of the first airmail line in Spain. Four mail planes departed and arrived simultaneously at an Alicante airfield. About 100 Years Of The First Spanish Airmail