RED CROSS...FORMULA ENVELOPES

Travancore inter post departmental envelopes....(red cross) 

a)Noornad to Trivandrum.

b)Bharanaganam to Trivandrum.

c) Kalanjoor to Trivandrum.

FOUR CASH...1903 Single Line Card...DOUBLE PRINT

Travancore  scarce 1903 RAMA VARMA potrait with white background... FOUR CASH card...single line header....from Pulinkunnu to Trivandrum.

Jump print or double print?

A jump print to me. Scarcely seen.

Card/Envelopes addressed to COCHIN SUPERINTENDENT.

Travancore Registered printed envelope & Four Cash card addressed to JACOB. I. CHANDY, Anchal Superintendent of Cochin, along with a 1913 Cochin Gazette notification, seeking application for the post of Anchalmen...in vernacular language.

1) Registered printed envelope (3 1/2 Chuckram) surcharges in red...3 Chs 10 Ca...a provisional issue, with '2 C'  ovpt: on 10 cash stamp..
June 15, 1932 Trivandrum to Ernakulam (June 17).

2) Four Cash R.V. potrait card from Kottayam via transit station..Edapally to Ernakulam.
August 13, 1914..Kottayam
August 14...Edapally  & Ernakulam.

V-2..VILLAGE POST OFFICE... KIDANGOOR FOLDED LETTER

Travancore 1909 October 11th.. 'V-2'..Kidangoor cancelled folded letter to Chovara(Cochin State) and back to Kidangoor...October 15

1) Kidangoor..26 Kanni,1085 M.E(11/10/1909)
2)Ettumanoor..26 Kanni
3)Vaikom...26 Kanni
4)Edapally...26 Kanni
5) Chovara..28 Kanni
The addressee deceased, hence returned...endorsed by the Anchalman.
6)Chovara..29 Kanni
7)Edapally..30 Kanni
8)Vaikam..30 Kanni
9)Ettumanoor..30 Kanni
10)Kidangoor..30 Kanni...15/10/1909.

1903/04 FOUR CASH CARDS ...RV PORTRAIT WITH RED BACKGROUND.

Scarce 1903/'04 post cards of Maharaja Rama Varma of Travancore, with the single line heading...survived for a very short gestation period of hardly 4 months.

1) Wrongly posted in the wrong postbox (British) from Ambalapuzha (postage due of 1/2 anna....horse shoe cancel) to Kottayam.

2) Posted to USA by affixing One Anna K.E. stamp from Chethipuzha Changnacherry. As the card is used to be send outside state, it should be affixed with the requiste 'One Anna' British India stamp. Travancore stationary had no legal tender, if used for, to be posted outside the state, other than Cochin.

3) Posted from Ettumanoor to Alleppey..please note the Alleppey delivery time cancel 'Morning 8:30'..'Pa' for Pakal.

4) Posted from Changnacherry to Varapuzha

1894 8 CASH PERFORATED REGISTERED CARD

1894 Travancore Eight Cash perforated card from Padanayarkulangara (Thi-26..March 24) to Karunagapally ...delivery seal not seen, probably on the acknowledgement slip attached (1/2 chuckram stamp...also missing). This card was returned from Karunagapally to Padayanayarkulangara on 27 March. 

'Cash Eight' registered cards are rarely seen. The registered charges are 2 chuckrams for the period...1889 -'90 to 1895-'96. The blue criss-crossed crayon markings has been done by the postmaster to denote the registeration, and to inform the delivery man, at the other end, of its importance.

Seen on the left is a manuscript ...14-8-69....done by the postmaster at Padanayarkulangara, along with signature.

"Thi" cancels are normally seen on envelopes, but not used on postcards, unless otherwise for registered stamped post cards (seen here), which is also very unlikely.

TRAVANCORE GAZETTE...PRE STAMP 1887 CANCELS

1887 April 05, Gazette of Travancore Government posted from Trivandrum to Nagercoil.….used before the birth of adhesive stamps (1888) in Travancore.

2 different Pre-stamp postmarks. Gazette  printed during the regime of  Maharaja Sree Moolam Thrunal Rama Varma (1885 to 1924 A.D.)

17 pages gazette.... contents in English, Malayalam & Tamil.