Harvest

A main method of the African Society of Italy (Società Africana d’Italia) and other such organizations at the time was to make the Italian public and businesses aware of the goods that the Italian colonies produce to encourage trade with the colonies. As part of that, these stamps depict such goods. There are banana trees, cotton fields, sugar cane being harvested, and Baobab trees, all products of Somalia.

Note

There are two sets of stamps on this album page. Previously, I had placed other stamps on this page, which I moved to a new page that I added recently (see More Pictorials).

Although the two stamps in the second set here are related to the stamps on that new page, since they’re air mail I put them on this page. I think this page looks better with the pair as an offset to the layout.

Contains 12 spots: own 12 – 12 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 15, 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

Tropical Farming

1.1	✓	A17	Banana Grove	25c (aug 1936) air mail, dark green
1.2	✓	A18	Cotton Picking	50c (jul 1936) air mail, dark brown
1.3	✓	A19	Baobab Trees	60c (aug 1936) air mail, orange
2.1	✓	A20	Sugar Cane Cutting	75c (aug 1936) air mail, yellow brown
2.2	✓	A21	Young Native	1₤ (may 1936) air mail, deep blue
2.3	✓	A22	Banana Grove	1.50₤ (aug 1936) air mail, violet
3.1	✓	A23	Cotton Picking	2₤ (aug 1936) air mail, blackish blue
3.2	✓	A24	Young Native	3₤ (aug 1936) air mail, brown red
3.3	✓	A25	Baobab Trees	5₤ (aug 1936) air mail, green
4.1	✓	A26	Sugar Cane Cutting	10₤ (aug 1936) air mail, carmine

Pictorial Definitives (perf. 14)

5.1	✓	A27	Govt. Palace in Mogadishu	50c (jan 1936) air mail, violet
5.2	✓	A28	Termite Mound	2₤ (jan 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.