1936..6 C on 5 Cash Service card...shifted to the right... Minor Die & Overprints variety

1936...'6 C' on 5 Cash Service card with the potrait of Sree Mulam Thirunal Rama Varma (reigned from 1885 -1924)...shifted to the right... Die (minor retouched corrections) & overprint variety 

Potrait shifted to the right (2nd card)

1) 1936..Aruvamozhi (Aramboly) ..Medam 4 to Trivandrum 5-Med-11 Addressed to the Director of Public Health.

2) 1936..Quilon.. addressed to the Asst Engineer, PWD, Quilon.. 

Experimental office @ Thangassery.

1) Minor Die retouched variety ..corner fluer-de-lis...with white & blue background..thick bluish outline.

2) Thin & Thick fount (6 C)

3) Space between 6 & C.

Maharaja Sree Mulam Thirunal Rama Varma (reigned from 1885 to 1924)

1945...TRAVANCORE STATE LABOUR UNIT (T.S.L.U.) Censored & Postage Due envelopes under the command of S.E.A.C in World War 2..

The South East Asia Command (SEAC) was an Allied command established in August 1943 to direct Indian, U.S. & British forces against Japan in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II.

SEAC was responsible for strategic direction in the South-East Asian Theater, specifically managing the Burma Campaign to defeat Japanese forces, protect India, and reopen supply routes to China.

Commanded by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, SEAC (South East Asia Command) operates primarily in Burma, Ceylon & Malaya. 

T.S.L.U. No 83 (TRAVANCORE STATE LABOUR UNIT) ....These men were hired from the State of Travancore by an agreement between the U.S. Army and the Maharaja of Travancore to work as labourers for the U S. Army in various parts of India. These men lived under military discipline in camps. Camp No: 83 was located near Lakhapani which is 7 miles from Ledo, Assam on the Indo Burmese boundary line. 

These T.S.L.U. men were permitted to send and recieve mail  free of cost, while serving as labourers under SEAC

This was a necessary privilege as the men were seperated from the families while working and the cost of sending a letter which costs 1.5 Annas (3 cents) would be high for a labourer who earn a daily wages of Rupees 3 & 5 Annas ($1.00).

 Postage Due were charged only when the mail didn't pass thru the censor unit duly signed by the authorised signatory.

 Postage Due covers seen mostly, once the war ended..from June 1945.

Travancore 1939 Registered Letter with 'Not found' vernacular cancel....'കണ്ടില്ലo' for കണ്ടില്ലാ

Travancore registered letter from Kottayam PIRAVAKA with 3 ch 12 cash stamps as postage, to Poonjar.

1939..5/4/1115 M.E.  Registered letter from the District Court of Kottayam was returned from Poonjar, with vernacular marking of  'കണ്ടില്ലo' for കണ്ടില്ലാ (KANTILLA...Not found)...stamped at the delivery Anchal office, when the addressee is not traceable or found.

Registration charge..3 Ch. 

Postage...12 Cash.

Multiple manuscript notations by Anchal Man, seen on the reverse.

'കണ്ടില്ലo' instead of കണ്ടില്ലാ (Not found).

Travancore Anchal Savings Bank Pass Book...

 

1922 Cochin interstate Service Hundi (Bluish green) acknowledgement receipt from Trichur to Trivandrum, Travancore Government Press.

1922 Cochin interstate  service Hundi (Bluish green) acknowledgement receipt (to be sent back to the remitter) from Trichur via interstate transit station of Alwaye, to the Superintendent, Travancore Government Press...and later, this intimation is returned via the transit station of Ernakulam to the remitter in Trichur. Scarce. 

Hundi amount of Rs 6 remitted by the Registrar of Cooperatve Societies, Cochin Government, Trichur, to the Superintendent of Government Press, Trivandrum. 

No postage is levied on these Service Hundies, as per the prior agreement between the 2 states.

Hundi marking seen first at the Travancore interstate transit station of Alwaye, and next at the arrival station of Trivandrum.

Date of payment received..26 KAR.

It appears that the travel time of Hundi acknowledgement receipt did took atleast 14 days to be returned to the remitter.

-- KAR 97.. TRICHUR 

 20 KAR 97..ALWAYE (transit station)

 23 KAR 97.. TRIVANDRUM 

26 KAR 97.. TRIVANDRUM 

28 KAR 97..ALWAYE 

28 KAR 97.. ERNAKULAM (transit station)

32 KAR 97.. TRICHUR.