El Pino

 

El Pino airmail paper.

While visiting Campuzano cousins in LA, they shared a Spanish language transcription of research into the origins of the Campuzano family in Spain. There were three pages, written in pencil in Spanish cursive script on a thin onion skin paper. The pages did not appear to have been folded, and were rolled into a tube, labeled "important". The tube was recently found by the cousins in the past two weeks. I'm trying to figure out the age of the paper used. I've enlarged the image of the logo above to show the brand - El Pino Airmail paper. 

I am assuming the pages date from the late 1940s to 1970s, but I don't know for certain. Airmail paper can still be found today, although it is not widely used. We don't know who wrote the pages, but one paragraph was addressed to someone named, or nicknamed, Oliva. The author of the pages was providing information on what they had found while searching for the origins of the Campuzano family in Spanish records.

I'll have more on that transcription in the next post, which potentially points us to a much older and deeper connection to northern Spain than we previously knew.