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. 

 

 

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