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.













1899 CASH FIVE double postcard mint

1899 'CASH FIVE' double postcard (Perf: 10) mint...was in use for a limited period, for it was followed soon by different varieties ...