Monday, April 26, 2021

1892 Mourning envelope, 1943 & 1941 cards of Travancore.

1892 One Chuckram (Die Type11) envelope  which carried a mourning letter from Varapuzha to Mutholi, Pala-Mennachil.

The envelope (obverse) is bordered by a thin black (inkpen) line, to inform the Anchal runner, that it's a letter which carried information of a deceased person, so as to rush the envelope to the recipient at the earliest.



2) 1943 Six Cash BRV portrait post card from Vechur to Kaduthuruthy, informing the death of a daughter (Rev: Sister Maria Annjala).


3) 1941 Mourning card from Trivandrum(32/12/1116) to Cochin (1/1/1117).






Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Mystery circular bar cancel....Rajakamangalam to Muttom Lighthouse.

Enigmatic 8 thick bar cancel (20 mm), with blank space inset, probably a trial run

One Chuckram envelope is 1890 (die type 11)...destined to reach Mutham (Muttom) Lighthouse, which is 5 k.m. from Rajakamangalam...addressed to C. P. H. Plummer, Sub Divisional Officer, Light House, Muttom.

Rajakamangalam Anchal office was operational only for a few months from 1064 (1888-'89) to 1065-'66 (1889-'90). Then reopened as Village post office, later in the year 1078 .
The envelope is devoid of despatch & delivery frankings.




 

Monday, April 19, 2021

1893 British Imperial India 'POSTAGE DUE' on Travancore 8 Cash card

1893 (13 April) Travancore Cash Eight perforated (10) post card from Kanjirapally (addressed to Appu Ayengar, Sub postmaster of Kottayam Post Office-British India) to Kottayam local Travancore anchal office (15 April) 

& then transferred/posted to British Imperial Kottayam office, attracting a Postage Due fine of One Anna...(normal post card rate is 1/4 Anna,  since this is a (part of) double card..normal rate for a double card is 1/2 Anna...hence taxed by 1 Anna).
Travelled thru' the green Travancore post box & red box of British India. 

 

 

Friday, April 9, 2021

1930 D.L.O. King George V envelope to Colombo from Nagercoil

1930 British Travancore registered  King George V One Anna with 2 Anna stamp affixed envelope from the District Court, Nagercoil (signed by the clerk) to British Occupied Colombo, Ceylon. 
Addressee ' Not Known' in  blue manuscript (obverse) along with UNCLAIMED  (boxed), sent to D. L.O MADRAS...returned to Nagercoil on 4 Oct 1930 



 

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