Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

Wartime air mail from Ethiopia: 3-3-1944 reg. a/m comm cv ex State Bank of Ethiopia to Barclays Bank HAIFA, franked 189 cent. using complete series 2nd Restoration definitives (Sc #250-257) per period rate (c. 70c for air service) & tied by 5 strikes of local pmk; airmail ex Ethiopia went via Egypt prior to ongoing transit, here marked by local civil censor (front); opened/resealed by KK/19106 (listed in Sacher used on label Q16, but here Q17 used) in HAIFA & tied by Haifa H6 censor h/s & b/s 16 MR 44 REG HAIFA arr.; slit open at top. Post Italian occupation Ethiopian civilian airmail is rare, esp. comm. cv. to Palestine.