Bangladesh Postal Cards and Stationery

PLEASE NOTE: Additional information was added to this page on January 3, 2002.

• Normal postal card. Issued 3 December 1998

• Miscut postal card. The color of the paper stock is slightly lighter than the postal card illustrated above it. The difference in color makes the ink appear a slightly different color. Issued 3 December 1998.

• Blank posatal card stock cut to size of card. This brighter yellow colored paper is found with the same image as the cards illustrated above it.

• Normal 10p card. Issued 15 February 1973?

• While postal cards with taped repairs are common for the cards of India, they are very scarce in Bangladesh. This is the same die as the one illustrated above, but the one is the "Reply" card and the other the normal postal card.

• This postal card appears to be similar to the one illustrated above it, but the paper stock is different, as is the die, and the size of the writing is smaller. Also, there are not as many dots in each line where the address is to be written. While the card above it has a blank reverse, this card is an error and has the image below on the reverse. The "REPLY" postal card was issued on 15 February 1973 and again in 1975.

Reverse (Of above card)

• Miscut 20p postal cards. Issued 1 November 1976.

• Miscut (Horizontally) 20p, plus 5p additional postage, postal card with "Reply" card attached to it. The additional postage covers the "Reply" on the reverse. The "Reply" side is the image on the right. Issued 5 December 1989.

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• POSTAL STATIONERY LISTINGS
  
  AEROGRAMMES
  
  First Series - Portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Rising Sun
  
  17 March 1972
  75p Light brown and blue on bluish
  
  28 April 1972
  20p Red and blue on bluish
  30p Purple and blue on bluish
  90p Violet and blue on bluish
  
  Second Series - Similar to above but colors different and texture of paper different
  
  27 April 1973
  20p Green and blue on bluish
  30p Red and blue on bluish
  75p Olive and blue on bluish
  90p Deep blue and blue on bluish
  
  Third Series - Symbolic Flying Bird
  
  28 October 1974
  25p Deep blue and blue on bluish
  90p Red and blue on bluish
  
  20 October 1976
  30p Deep ? and blue on bluish
  2.50T Chocolate and blue on bluish
  2.75T Orange and blue on bluish
  3.00T Violet and blue on bluish
  
  Fourth Series - Tourism issue
  
  20 February 1980
  50p Navy blue on light blue
  70p Light green on light blue
  2.50T Sky blue on light blue
  2.75T Pink on light blue
  3.00T Dull green on light blue
  
  Fifth Series - Same as above but added text "Sender's name and address".
  
  April/May 1981
  50p Navy blue on light blue
  70p Light green on light blue
  2.50T Sky blue on light blue
  2.75T Pink on light blue
  3.00T Dull green on light blue
  
  Sixth Series - Forces Aerogramme done on Tourism issue with army insignia overprint
  1990
  50p Navy blue on light blue (Same as 20 Feb. 1980 issue)
  50p Navy blue on light blue (Same as Apr/May 1981 issue with "Sender's Name..."
  
  Seventh Series - "Pabex-99"
  
  1999
  3.00T Overprint on dull green on light blue (Same as 20 Feb. 1980 issue)
  
  ENVELOPES
  Mr. Werner Gras from Germany contacted me with some corrected dates of a few of the envelopes listed below. I will post the new dates in parenthesies, after my original dates, for those of you who may want to make note of such. Those of Mr. Gras' are most likely correct.
  
  "Shapla" Lotus issue
  
  15 July 1972* (July 19th) (Not embossed)
  20p Brown orange on off-white (color variety)
  20p Darker copper brown on off-white (color variety)
  
  7 April 1973 (Embossed)
  20p Red on off-white
  
  ? July 1974* (July 26) (Embossed)
  25p Red on off-white
  
  10 February 1976 (Embossed)
  25p Red on white
  
  2 October 1976 (Embossed)
  30p Red on white
  
  10 October 1979 (Embossed)
  40p Red on cream
  
  "Doyel" Bird issue (Many different dies exist for this issue)
  
  1 March 1983
  50p Navy blue on cream
  
  1857 Sepoy Mutiny Monument issue (Many dies exist for this issue)
  
  15 October 1985
  1.00T Deep brown on cream
  
  "Smriti Shoudha" National Monument issue (Many dies exist for this issue)
  
  9 January 1990* (November 8, 1990)
  2.00T Brown on tan (Paper variety)
  Brown on orangish-yellow (Paper variety)
  
  "Banglapex-92" (Green and Gold overprint on Smriti Shoudha issue)
  
  29 July 1992
  2.00T Brown on yellow
  
  "National Philatelic Week - 93" (Green overprint on Smriti Shoudha issue)
  
  10 October 1993* (October 20, 1993)
  2.00T Brown on yellow
  
  "Smriti Shoudha" New design issue
  
  1 June 1994
  2.00T Olive-green on orangish-yellow (Color variety)
  Deep green on orangish-yellow (Color variety)
  
  "Smriti Shoudha" As above with green text in a rectangle added to the top center and left* (May 31, 2003)
  
  DATE???
  2.00T - Deep green on orangish-yellow
  REGISTERED ENVELOPES
  
  "Shapla" Lotus design
  
  1 November 1972 (Not embossed)
  80+20p Green on off-white
  
  1 March 1973 (Embossed)
  80+20p Violet on off-white
  
  ? 1974
  1.00T+20p Violet on off-white (Printed by McCorquadale Printers Ltd., England)
  
  20 February 1980
  1.00t+20p Green on gray
  
  *Note that there are varieties of rubber stamp impressions of surcharge/stationery charges on these issues
  
  
  POSTAL CARDS
  
  First issue - Portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Printed in India at Nasek)
  
  18 April 1972
  10p Single Dull green on buff
  15 February 1973
  10p+10p Reply Dull green on buff
  3 May 1973
  10p+10p+10p+10p
  (Strip of 4) Dull green on buff
  ? 1975
  (10p+10p)+(10p+10p)
  (Double Reply) Dull green on buff
  
  Second issue - Shock of rice plants (Printed in England)
  
  29 June 1976
  15p (Single) Orange brown on granite
  15p+15p (Reply) Orange brown on granite
  
  1 November 1976
  20p (Single) Orange brown on granite
  
  5 December 1989
  20p+20p (Reply) Orange brown on granite
  
  Third Issue - Shahid Minar (Printed by Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur)
  
  25 May 1991
  1.00T Red on cream (Postal Code box at bottom is divided into boxes and has PO Code No. written in Bengali)
  *Unissued variety (Postal Code box is not divided into squares and only Code No. is written in Bengali)
  
  Fourth Issue - "Banglapex-92" overprint on Shahid Minar issue
  
  29 July 1992
  1.00T Overprint in green and gold
  
  Fifth Issue - Portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
  
  3 December 1998
  1.00T - Green
  
  
  PICTORIAL POST CARDS (Note that these are "Post Cards", not "Postal Cards". There are no stamp images on them and one must apply the postage)
  
  First Issue all depicting mosques
  
  16 July 1988
  1. Drawn silouette of dome of mosque, crescent moon with text "Eid Mubarak" in Bengali, Arabic and English - Blue, white and black.
  
  2. Photo of Star Mosque, Dhaka - Multicolored.
  
  3. Photo of Seven Dome Mosque, Dhaka - Multicolored.