Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Pre-adhesive period...REGISTER..in manuscript. .1879

1879 Registered (in pen stroke..രജി നമ്പ്ര-ന്ന...Reg No 6) folded letter from South (തെക്കൻ  പറവൂർ ) Paravur  (21/2/55...Sept 08, 1879) to Irinjalakuda.

Registration fee was 7 Chuckram  (registration process of letters was introduced in 1865).

This fee was lowered to 6 Ch in 1881-'82, and subsequently to 3 Ch, when adhesive stamps & envelopes were first issued in 1888.




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