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1919 Animal and Rulers Commemoratives


1919, June 16
Designer: Walter Plattner
Engraver and Printer: Busag Works, Berne, Switzerland
Printing: Lithography; Sheets: 100 (10 x 10); Perforation: 11½
Scott: 120-134. Stanly Gibbons: 181-195. Michel: 64-78. Yvert: 117-131.
174 1/8 g Slate lilac and brown Sommering's gazelle
500,000
175 1/4 g Green and drab brown Giraffes
500,000
176 1/2 g Vermillion and olive green Leopard
500,000
177 1 g Brown purple and bronze green Ras Tafari
500,000
178 2 g Ultramarine and yellow brown Ras Tafari
500,000
179 4 g Turquoise and yellow orange Ras Tafari
400,000
180 6 g Blue and yellow oragne St. George Cathederal
400,000
181 8 g Olive and black brown White rhinoceros
400,000
182 12 g Magenta and grey black Somali Ostriches
300,000
183 $1 Carmine rose and grey black Elephant
300,000
184 $2 Black and yellow brown Water buffalo
200,000
185 $3 Green and brown orange Lions
150,000
186 $4 Bistre brown and rose Empress Waizeri Zauditu
150,000
187 $5 Scarlet and grey black Empress Waizeri Zauditu
100,000
188 $10 Bronze green and ochre Empress Waizeri Zauditu
100,000
Notes:
1. $2 not issued - cancelled copies are CTO.
2. Impring BUSAG BERNE omitted on $3.
3. Some values are known on grey paper instead of white.
4. The only know printed proofs are of the 8g rhino design which comes in different color combinations, variously reported at 80, 92, and 125 different. 
Other imperforates and varieties are reprints.
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Proofs from the estate of Frederic Swink,
nephew of Adolph Michel

                    Revised: January 16, 2003