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	September 1905 - Taxe à Percevoir Postage Due
	Quantity Issued (not confirmed): 36,300 total for all values
	Taxe à Percevoir (tax to be collected) over capital T - rubber handstamp in violet and blue.
	Postage-due letter from Barretto & Co., Hong Kong to Armand Savouré in Addis Abeba. 22 November 1905 Victoria, Hong Kong cancel. 5 December 1905 Aden and 10 December 1905 Djibouti transit cancels. 19 December 1905 Harrar receiving cancel. Correct franking: 10 Cents Hong Kong pays the expected rate + 1 Guerche postage due added in Harrar pays the expected Ethiopian external letter rate. 27 days travel time.
	Misrouted postage due letter from Cairo, Egypt to Adolf Mayers in Addis Ababa. 10 May 1906 Cairo cancel. 11 May Suez transit cancel. Letter misrouted to Singapore. 31 May 1906 Singapore receiving cancel. 14 July 1905 Aden transit cancel. 15 July 1906 Aden transit cancel. 5 August Harar receiving cancel. 1 Piaster Egyptian postage + 1 Guerche Ethiopian postage due. 87 days total transit time = 21 days to Singapore + 66 days to Addis Ababa. Adolf Jakob Mayers was an Ethiopian counselor, controller of Menelik's treasury, diplomat and writer. He was associated with the German Legation in Addis Ababa.
	Registered, postage due letter from Dr. Thomas Thomatis in Caravonica, Cairns, Queesland, Australia to Armand Savouré in Addis Abeba. 18 May 1906 Caravonica, Cairns, Queensland cancel. 18 May 1906 Cairns, Queensland transit cancel. 24 May 1906 Brisbane transit cancel. 21 June 1906 Aden transit cancel. 22 June 1906 Djibouti transit cancel. Indistinct 2? July? 1906 Harrar receiving cancel. 5 1/2 cents pays the expected Queensland rate = 2 1/2d foreign letter rate (up to 1/2 ounce) + 3d registration fee. 2 Guerche Ethiopian postage due pays the 2G foreign letter rate. 45 days transit time. Dr. Thomatis owned a cotton tree plantation. Armand Savouré also owned a plantation and was King Menelik's arms dealer. Special thanks to the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria, Inc. for providing an explanation of the Queensland franking.
	Postage due letter from Cairo, Egypt to Dr. Kurt Herzbruch in Addis Abeba. 29 January 1907 Cairo cancel. ?? January 1907 Suez transit cancel.  2 February 1907 Djibouti transit cancel. 22? February Addis Abeba receiving cancel. 1 Piaster Egyptian postage + 1 Guerche Ethiopian postage due. 24 days transit time. Dr. Herzbruch lived and travelled in Ethiopia and wrote the book Eine Reise zum Hofe Kaiser Meneliks II (A Journey to the Court of Emperor Menelik II). Aux soins obligeants de Mons. Coats, Ministre d'Allemagne = In care of Mr. Coats, German Minister.
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