Air Mail

As part of the promotion of Eritrea to the Italian public back on the peninsula, as well as instilling a sense of pride with the Eritrean people, these stamps depict various airplanes flying over what I suppose was common terrain in Eritea: there’s a scene with a plane flying over a Zebu plowing a field, through a mountaneous region, over large cacti, and palm trees, as well as a modern bridge. Supposedly, the airplanes shown were used at the time for transporting mail.

Note

This page is finished, but there’s plenty of space for another set of stamps. There aren’t any other sets to pull from another page, not unless I go back many pages in this album. I could grab the last set on the Italian Monuments page. I’d like to disburse those three sets. The last one is from 1930, while the ones on this page are from 1936. That’s pretty far apart in years. I might relocate this page right after the Eritrean Life page, which contain stamps from 1933, to balance out the issuance years.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 4, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Air Mail

1.1	✓	A17	Plow with Zebu	25c (sep 1936) air mail, dark green
1.2	✓	A18	Africans subjects - airmail	50c (jun 1936) air mail, brownish
1.3	✓	A19	Gingerbread Palm Tree	60c (sep 1936) air mail, orange
2.1	✓	A20	Desert Candle Succulent	75c (sep 1936) air mail, yellow brown
2.2	✓	A21	Africans subjects - airmail	1₤ (may 1936) air mail, blue
3.1	✓	A22	Plow with Zebu	1.50₤ (sep 1936) air mail, violet
3.2	✓	A23	Railway Massaua-Asmara	2₤ (sep 1936) air mail, blackish blue
3.3	✓	A24	Plane over bridge	3₤ (sep 1936) air mail, brownish red
4.1	✓	A25	Gingerbread Palm Tree	5₤ (sep 1936) air mail, green
4.2	✓	A26	Desert Candle Succulent	10₤ (sep 1936) air mail, carmine

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.