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Bidboard # 1925
Lot # 240
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $500.00
Current Bid: $650
Ethiopia

Specialized collection of the 1929 Airmail issue, mostly mint and in complete sets. All 4 issued colours of the overprint are represented, in violet, red, black and green as well as a single with overprint in blue with stated 4 copies known. The handstamp nature of the overprints lends itself to many errors and varieties and here we have doubled, inverted, sideways, additional and missing overprints in spades. There are also at least 3 types of the overprint recorded and these have been meticulously noted on the album pages, including with the Sanabria Airmail Catalogue numbers. Also includes a flown cover to Southwest Africa. Catalogued merely as basic stamps the Scott value is US$275.75 but intact specialized collections with multiples research possibilities are very hard to come by anymore.