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30 March 1917 - First Coronation Commemoratives |
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| Quantity Issued: 1/4G-24,000; 1/2G 20,000; 2G 12,000; 4G 6,000; 8G 4,000; 16G 3,000 | ||||||
| Designer: Stamps - Victor Marec | ||||||
| Perforations: 11.5 X 11.5 | ||||||
| Printer: Stamps - Atelier de Fabrication des Timbres, Paris, France; Handstamp - Local Post Office | ||||||
| Printing Process: Stamps - Typography; Overprint - Handstamp | ||||||
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1/4 Guerche | Stanley Gibbons | Michel | Minkus | Scott | Y&T |
| 161 | 47 | 155 | 101 | 100 | ||
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1/2 Guerche | Stanley Gibbons | Michel | Minkus | Scott | Y&T |
| 162 | 48 | 156 | 102 | 11 | ||
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2 Guerches | Stanley Gibbons | Michel | Minkus | Scott | Y&T |
| 163 | 49 | 157 | 104 | 102 | ||
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4 Guerches | Stanley Gibbons | Michel | Minkus | Scott | Y&T |
| 164 | 50 | 158 | 105 | 103 | ||
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8 Guerches | Stanley Gibbons | Michel | Minkus | Scott | Y&T |
| 165 | 51 | 159 | 106 | 104 | ||
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16 Guerches | Stanley Gibbons | Michel | Minkus | Scott | Y&T |
| 166 | 52 | 160 | 107 | 105 | ||
 Philatelic cover. Backdated 3 March 1917 Addis Ababa R.P. (Payne AA8A) cancel. The stamp was not issued until 30 March 1917. The AA8A Addis Ababa R.P. (Recette Principale) cancel device was first used around October 1925. |
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 Philatelic cover. Backdated 3 March 1917 Addis Ababa R.P. (Payne AA8A) cancel. The stamp was not issued until 30 March 1917. The AA8A Addis Ababa R.P. (Recette Principale) cancel device was first used around October 1925. Note the overprint on the stamp is black rather than violet. |
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 Internal letter (cover front) sent from Dire-Daoua to Dire-Daoua. 21 April 1917 (Payne DD5-A) Dire-Daoua cancel. 1 Guerche pays the expected internal rate. This is most likely a philatelic creation and never travelled. Note: (1) The left stamp has a black overprint and the right stamp has a light violet overprint rather than the expected violet overprint; and (2) the DD5-A cancel on the stamps is blue and the cancel on the envelope is black. The original rail company was called the Imperial Ethiopian Railway Company (CIE). In 1909, it was reorganized and renamed the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti à Addis-Abeba (CFE). |
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 External registered letter sent from Addis Abbeba to Cairo, Egypt. 4 May 1917 (Payne AA4A) Addis Abbeba cancel. 3 Guerches under pays the expected 2G first weight unit + 2G registration fee. 18 Days travel time. Blue British censor mark applied in Egypt. |
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  External letter sent from Addis Abbeba to Marseille, France and then forwarded to Nice, France. 4 May 1917 (Payne AA4A) Addis Abbeba cancel. 2 Guerches pay the expected external rate. Ohannes Assadourian ran a trading firm in Djibouti. He was one of the founders of the Armenian school in Addis Ababa, in 1918, and he was repeatedly President and Vice-president of the National Council of the Armenian community in Ethiopia. |
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  Internal letter sent from Addis Abbeba to Addis Abbeba. 2 February 1918 (Payne AA4A) Addis Abbeba cancel. 1 Guerche pays the expected internal rate. Note: Three of the stamps have the light violet overprint rather than the expected violet overprint. The cover is address to Jean Adolph Michel and it is not his handwriting. Around November 1912, Michel work as an agent for the Tdlibi Baldassare, Sourvis, Nicolas and Company Rubber Trust. He and his family left Ethiopia for France sometime after 5 September 1918. |
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