DOIG'S ETHIOPIA STAMP CATALOGUE

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Postal Cards

Formula Cards

                        Essays. F4 was selected for the first postal cards.
                        Typographed by Atelier de Fabrication des Timbres, Paris.
                        1895-1896
F1 No value, no lion, bottom scroll points down (A, D, F)
1,000
F2 No value, small lion head, bottom scroll points up (B, D, G)
1,500
F3 No value, large lion head, bottom scroll points down (C, E, F)
1,500
F4 No value, large lion head, bottom scroll points up (C, E, G)  

Post Cards

Engraved by E. Mouchon; typographed by Atelier de Fabrication des Timbres, Paris. 
Printed 15-17 June 1896. A total of 61,275 cards were delivered to Chefneaux in Paris on 15 July 1896. A reported 3,000 sets were sent to Ethiopia, however there may have 6,000 of the 1 guerche as 3,219 of them were inventoried in 1903. The balances were held in France and sold to collectors by A. Maury. They later appear with French stamps in 1936-1941.
The Amharic reads: Post Card / Write Correspondence on Reverse.
                   
                        1896, September 24 (earliest recorded postal use)
P1 ¼ Guerche, Green
20,650
P2 ½ Guerche, Orange
20,500
P3 1 Guerche, Blue
20,125

                        Ethiopie handstamps
                        1901, July (Earliest recorded date 25 Oct 1901, 1g postally used, violet handstamp)

P4 ¼ Guerche, Green – Violet handstamp [no recorded postal use]
a. Blue handstamp [no recorded postal use]		 .
P5 ½ Guerche, Orange – Violet handstamp [no recorded postal use]
a. Blue handstamp [no recorded postal use]		 .
P6 1 Guerche, Blue – Violet handstamp
a. Blue handstamp [no recorded postal use]
1,000 approx.

                      Bosta handstamps
                        1902  (Earliest recorded date 16 Apr 1902 postally used, violet handstamp)

P7 ¼ Guerche, Green – Violet handstamp
a. Black handstamp
200?
P8 ½ Guerche, Orange – Violet handstamp
a. Black handstamp
155?
P9 1 Guerche, Blue – Violet handstamp
a. Black handstamp
375?

                        Melikt handstamps
                        1903  (Earliest recorded date 5 June 1903 CTO)

P10 ¼ Guerche, Green – Black handstamp
a. Double handstamp
300?
P11 ½ Guerche, Orange – Black handstamp  
P12 1 Guerche, Blue – Black handstamps
600?

                        Numeral handstamps
                        1905  (Earliest recorded date 24 Feb 1905 CTO)

P13 1 Guerche, Blue, 05 in violet 
*
P14 1 Guerche, Blue, 5 in violet
1,000?
P15 1 Guerche, Blue, 10 in violet
500?
P16 1 Guerche, Blue, 20 in violet  
                        *Quantity included in P14

                        5 c/m handstamps
                        1905  (Earliest recorded date 17 May 1905 CTO)
P17 1 Guerche, Blue, 5 c/m in violet  
P18 1 Guerche, Blue, 5 c/m in violet on Bosta in black  
P19 1 Guerche, Blue, 5 c/m in violet on Melikt in Black

                        Hailie Selassie Cards
                        Designed, engraved, and typographed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., England.
                        1952, March 1

P20 8 Cents, Red on Salmon
50,000
P21 15 Cents, Green on Green
50,000
P22 20 Cents, Blue on Blue, Air Mail
50,000

                        Picture Post Cards
                        Engraved and printed by photogravure by Courvoisier, Switzerland.
                        Official issue of the Ministry of P.T.T. without postal value.
                        1968, October 23

  Set of Ancient Leaders II
50,000
  Set of Flowers of Ethiopia
50,000
  Set of Musical Instruments 
50,000
  Set of Birds III
50,000
  Set of Animals II
50,000

                      Revised: September 9, 2000