Friday, August 15, 2025

Smallest Postage Due (Kooli) folded letter

Small folded kooli (24 cash or 1&1/2 Chuckram) unstamped letter (6.8x4.7 cm) from Thiruvattar to Kottakkakam (Trivandrum) dated 9 /12 /116 (1941). 


Postage rate in 1941 is 3/4 Chuckram(12 Cash)..hence the Postage Due is double the actual postage...ie 24 Cash.










For comparison of its midget size along with a 1890 Thin 8 Cash card. 



 

Friday, August 1, 2025

Travancore 1925 circular cancellation unrecorded

1925 Postage Due on a folded unstamped letter from Nagercoil to Parassala...


 Interesting to note that a few cancellations around 1099/1100 (1924/'25) didn't last long...the great flood of '99 (1924)?


Unrecorded cancellation...hyphen in the date (1-MEE-99).


36 mm cds.













1901 Wrapper with extra stamp (lost in transit) from Mannanam to Changnacherry

1901 Cash Six Wrapper, affixed with extra adhesive stamp (due to excess weight) which is seen lost in transit, cancelled by indistinct T-80...