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Red Cross Issue
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| 1936, February 24
Printed by Societe Financiere de France, Paris with a red cross typographed in the upper left on designs of the 1931 Definitives in different colors on thinner paper. Scott: B1-B5. Stanly Gibbons: 313-317. Michel: 191-195. Yvert: 209-213. |
| 316
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1 g Green (Empress Menen profile)
a. Inverted red cross b. Red Cross missing |
500,000
50 |
| 317
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2 g Pink (Haile Selassie profile)
a. Inverted red cross b. Red Cross missing |
500,000
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| 318
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4 g Blue (Statue of Menelik II)
a. Inverted red cross b. Red Cross missing |
500,000
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| 319
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8 g Brown (Haile Selassie profile)
a. Inverted red cross b. Red Cross missing |
500,000
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| 320 | 1 t Violet (Statue of Menelik II) |
500,000
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| Notes:
1. Sold only in complete sets at double face value. Half the proceeds went to the newly formed Ethiopian Red Cross. 2. Sold in New York beginning March 1, 1936. Self-addressed envelopes with stamps affixed were sent to the Ethiopian Red Cross and mailed from Addis Abeba. The mint stamps were also available in some European capitals. 3. Stamps exist with the cross misplaced, sometimes in the top center. 4. For a more complete postal history see Scott's Monthly Journal, June 1938 HERE. |
Last update: September 6, 2000