Saturday, June 20, 2020

RED CROSS...FORMULA ENVELOPES

Travancore inter post departmental envelopes....(red cross

a)Noornad to Trivandrum.

b)Bharanaganam to Trivandrum.

c) Kalanjoor to Trivandrum.






FOUR CASH...1903 Single Line Card...DOUBLE PRINT

Travancore  scarce 1903 RAMA VARMA potrait with white background... FOUR CASH card...single line header....from Pulinkunnu to Trivandrum.

Jump print or double print?
A jump print to me. Scarcely seen.





Card/Envelopes addressed to COCHIN SUPERINTENDENT.

Travancore Registered printed envelope & Four Cash card addressed to JACOB. I. CHANDY, Anchal Superintendent of Cochin, along with a 1913 Cochin Gazette notification, seeking application for the post of Anchalmen...in vernacular language.

1) Registered printed envelope (3 1/2 Chuckram) surcharges in red...3 Chs 10 Ca...a provisional issue, with '2 C'  ovpt: on 10 cash stamp..
June 15, 1932 Trivandrum to Ernakulam (June 17).

2) Four Cash R.V. potrait card from Kottayam via transit station..Edapally to Ernakulam.
August 13, 1914..Kottayam
August 14...Edapally  & Ernakulam.


V-2..VILLAGE POST OFFICE... KIDANGOOR FOLDED LETTER

Travancore 1909 October 11th.. 'V-2'..Kidangoor cancelled folded letter to Chovara(Cochin State) and back to Kidangoor...October 15

1) Kidangoor..26 Kanni,1085 M.E(11/10/1909)
2)Ettumanoor..26 Kanni
3)Vaikom...26 Kanni
4)Edapally...26 Kanni
5) Chovara..28 Kanni
The addressee deceased, hence returned...endorsed by the Anchalman.
6)Chovara..29 Kanni
7)Edapally..30 Kanni
8)Vaikam..30 Kanni
9)Ettumanoor..30 Kanni
10)Kidangoor..30 Kanni...15/10/1909.


1903/04 FOUR CASH CARDS ...RV PORTRAIT WITH RED BACKGROUND.


Scarce 1903/'04 post cards of Maharaja Rama Varma of Travancore, with the single line heading...survived for a very short gestation period of hardly 4 months.
1) Wrongly posted in the wrong postbox (British) from Ambalapuzha (postage due of 1/2 anna....horse shoe cancel) to Kottayam.
2) Posted to USA by affixing One Anna K.E. stamp from Chethipuzha Changnacherry. As the card is used to be send outside state, it should be affixed with the requiste 'One Anna' British India stamp. Travancore stationary had no legal tender, if used for, to be posted outside the state, other than Cochin.
3) Posted from Ettumanoor to Alleppey..please note the Alleppey delivery time cancel 'Morning 8:30'..'Pa' for Pakal.
4) Posted from Changnacherry to Varapuzha





Service 6 Cash & 8 Cash post cards.

  Year of issue for Service 6 Cash...1942 Year of issue for Service 8 Cash...1948 Looking for precise dates of the issue of the above cards