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Lot# 675 - Auction 265-273

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    1896: 1 g. blue postal stationery card (H&G 3) written by the explorer Oscar Neumann on July 5, 1900 from "Sheikh Husska Arussi (Galla Land)" to Berlin with bilingual "HARAR" datestamp in blue (July 14), the card would have been carried by courrier to Harar; franked by India ½ a. green and two 1 a. plum all tied by "B" in bars obliterators with "ZAILA / SOMALI COAST" cds below (July 21) in black. 'Aden' transit cds (Nov 29) and Berlin arrival all on obverse. The Indian stamps applied close to the edge of card and some perfs. clipped but a rare and most attractive usage.rnrnNote: Oscar Neumann was born to a wealthy Jewish family (1867-1946), he travelled to German East Africa across Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya in 1892 and collected for the Berlin Museum publishing descriptions. In 1899 he accompanied Baron Carlo von Erlanger through and southern Ethiopia, collecting birds that went to Lord Walter Rothschild's bird collection in Tring. In 1941, with the help of his friend Julius Riemer he fled Germany, travelling from Berlin via Cuba to Chicago, where he worked the final years of his life as a curator in the Field Museum of Natural History.
    Starting bid : 750.00 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,400.00 CHF