By: Cherrystone Auctions
lot # 1537 - LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS YEMEN
1945 Hospital Issue set of four values, stock of 500+ stamps with privately prepared overprints from President Harry Truman's Visit to Yemen in 1946, red and black bilingual overprints, mostly blocks of four, some imperf. sets unoverprinted, varieties, etc. (President Harry Truman sent the first American diplomatic mission to Yemen in 1946. It was led by Bill Eddy, a former Marine who arranged President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's famous meeting with Saudi King Abdul-Aziz al Saud in Egypt a year earlier.) Interesting old-time holding, ex-Serebrakian
Estimate: $500
b
49-52,var
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