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Roberto Sciaky
ETHIOPIA - HAILE SELASSIE
THE EXILE, THE RESTORATION, THE DEPOSITION. 1936-1974
History, stamps and postal history

224 pp. - more than 400 b/w illustrations - format cm 21x29,7 - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2003
series "History through documents"
English text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ISBN: 88-85335-73-X
978-88-85335-73-8
Philately and postal history of Ethiopia of the period 1895-1936 are well documented; however, until now, no comprehensive documentation was available for the period 1936, end of the Italo-Ethiopian war, to 1974, year of deposition of Emperor Hailé Selassié I. This book now fills the gap.

Throughout the book chapters devoted to the historical backgrounds summarize the facts of the different periods and in some cases indicate the reasons for some issues.
The period 1936-1974, from the end of the Italo-Ethiopian war to the deposition of Emperor Hailé Selassié I, a rather elusive period for the Ethiopian postal history, has been studied. One chapter devoted to the post offices during the Italian occupation reports all the towns and villages that had a post office and the number of different types of cancellors used. Another chapter deals in detail with the postal arrangements of the period January 1941 - 31 January 1942 during the liberation of Italian East Africa (A.O.I.) The types and numbers of Military post cancellors used in Ethiopia during the liberation war are reported together with their period of use in the country.
All the sets issued after the restoration are described in detail giving information not reported in the stamp catalogues. New information is included, therefore: the reasons for the issues, the number of sets printed, the reported and some unreported varieties both of colour and of overprinting and much more information not generally available to collectors.
Many unreported facts deriving from unpublished studies by the author are also included in this new book.

The appendices are an important addition to the book and include a list of the Ethiopian post offices in the period 1942-1974 and a list of the known cancellors with the reproduction of most of them.
The most interesting and new appendix concerns the postal rates of the period 1942 to 1974 which until now were a mystery. The author obtained from U.P.U. the official documentation for surface and airmail rates that were not even available in Ethiopia, thus enlarging the knowledge and the scope of the Ethiopian postal history. This aspect of postal history is completed by the study of the airlines operations from 1940 through the restarting of the Ethiopian Airlines in 1947 and to 1974.
Other appendices include a list of postal stationery, postal cards and registration labels.
An elusive topic is the postal rates of the Italian East Africa, a very difficult sector with some information that shows its difficulty. Other appendices covering other aspects of postal history are also included.

A table of equivalence between catalogues will help collectors of different countries to recognise the sets and stamps that are hidden in the numbering of other catalogues.

CONTENTS

HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS 1936-1941. THE YEARS OF THE EXILE
* The exile and the return (1936-1941)
* The Italian civilian post offices in "Africa Orientale Italiana" 1936-1941
* The resistance to the Italian Occupation (1936-1941)
* The liberation of Ethiopia by the Allied troops (1940-1942)
* The postal arrangements in the period January 1941 - 31 January 1942 during the Liberation of Italian East Africa (A.O.I.)

THE RESTORATION AND THE RECONSTRUCTION (1942-1951)
* Historical backgrounds 1942-1951
* The year 1942
* The year 1943
* The years 1944, 1945 and 1946
* The years 1947 and 1948
* The years 1949 and 1950
* The year 1951
* Historical backgrounds 1952-1961
* The years 1952, 1953 and 1954
* The year 1955
* The years 1956 and 1957
* The years 1958 and 1959
* The year 1960
* The year 1961
* Historical backgrounds 1962-1974
* The years 1962-1965
* The years 1966-1969
* The years 1970-1974

APPENDIX
* The Ethiopian post offices 1942-1974
* The cancellors
* The postal rates
* Airmail covers: O.A.T. and A.V. 2 postal markings
* Postal stationary and postal cards
* The registration labels
* Airlines operations to and from Ethiopia during 1940-1947
* Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) postal rates
* Equivalence between catalogues
* The Imperial family after the death of Emperor Hailé Selassié I

Bibliography
1929-2006. Born in Milan, after the war he took the Ph.D. in Industrial Chemistry and worked with Nobel laureate prof. G. Natta.
Afterwards, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry and for some years he was professor of organic chemistry at the University of Milan.
After retirement, he worked with many international companies in Europe and USA and with UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) contributing to the development of some less developed countries.
Since his youth, he was interested in stamps collecting, his main interests being stamps and postal history of Ethiopia, Romania and Bulgaria.
He obtained gold medals for his postal history pre UPU (1867-1908) collection of Ethiopia at London 2000, Madrid 2000, Bruxelles 2001 and Japan 2001 world exhibitions.
His postal history collection of the UPU period (1909-1936) was awarded with large gold and special prize, and with large gold and special prize for the most beautiful collection of the postal history section at the Italian National exhibitions of S. Colombano (2002) and Sestri Levante (2003).
His Bulgaria collections were awarded the large vermeil at Ravenna (2004) and gold medal at Villa Manin (2005).
Other interests include modern graphics, classic and jazz music and sailing, making cruises in the Mediterranean sea.
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