Pre-post folded letter 1879 & 1880 letter from Irinjalakuda (Cochin) to Trivandrum..

1) Pre Post 1879 letter from Irinjalakuda (Cochin) via transit station of Travancore..  South Paravoor..with Too Late scroll cancel, to Trivandrum.

- June 12, 2021

1879 Pre Post folded letter from Irinjalakuda (Cochin State) charged with 1/2 Anna (in manuscript marking (top line on the reverse)..and written  'അടിയന്തിരം' (perhaps to expedite the delivery) on the obverse..addressed to the Tharnanelloor Mana (this family was entrusted with the ceremonial rites of Padmnabha Temple, Trivandrum.

Reached late after posting hours @ South Paravoor... transit station of Travancore, hence 'നിതീപ്പൊക' (Too Late)..16 Dhanu 1055 (26 Dec, 1879)..rimless semi arch cancel of  തെക്കൻ പറവൂർ (South Paravur) on the obverse.

...and charged 2 Panam/Fanam (8 Chuckram) as postage (bottom line on the reverse) to Trivandrum...and delivered at Trivandrum (faint cds).

തിരുവന്തപുരത്ത തരണനല്ലൂർ നമ്പൂരിപ്പാടിലെ മഠംവകമുതൽ വീട്ടിൽ കോരന്ന് കൊടുക്കുന്നതിൽ തരണനല്ലൂർമനക്കൽ നിന്ന് വരുന്നത്.

അടിയന്തിരം

 2)  Interstate Pre-adhesive folded letter from Irinjalakuda  (Cochin)..31 Chingam 1056 (1880) with postage of 1/2 Anna to Trivandrum via Thekken Paravur.

Addressed to Tharnanelloor Madom - trustees of the Padmanabhaswamy temple.

Travancore interesting error postmarks

Space in between 'R R' of KOZHENCHERRY 

 

1892 Mourning envelope, 1943 & 1941 cards of Travancore.

1892 One Chuckram (Die Type11) envelope  which carried a mourning letter from Varapuzha to Mutholi, Pala-Mennachil.

The envelope (obverse) is bordered by a thin black (inkpen) line, to inform the Anchal runner, that it's a letter which carried information of a deceased person, so as to rush the envelope to the recipient at the earliest.

2) 1943 Six Cash BRV portrait post card from Vechur to Kaduthuruthy, informing the death of a daughter (Rev: Sister Maria Annjala).

3) 1941 Mourning card from Trivandrum(32/12/1116) to Cochin (1/1/1117).

Mystery circular bar cancel....Rajakamangalam to Muttom Lighthouse.

Enigmatic 8 thick bar cancel (20 mm), with blank space inset, probably a trial run? 

One Chuckram envelope is 1890 (die type 11)...destined to reach Mutham (Muttom) Lighthouse, which is 5 k.m. from Rajakamangalam...addressed to C. P. H. Plummer, Sub Divisional Officer, Light House, Muttom.

Rajakamangalam Anchal office was operational only for a few months from 1064 (1888-'89) to 1065-'66 (1889-'90). Then reopened as Village post office, later in the year 1078 .

The envelope is devoid of despatch & delivery frankings.

 

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. 

 

 

1930 D.L.O. King George V envelope to Colombo from Nagercoil

1930 British Travancore registered  King George V One Anna with 2 Anna stamp affixed envelope from the District Court, Nagercoil (signed by the clerk) to British Occupied Colombo, Ceylon. 
Addressee ' Not Known' in  blue manuscript (obverse) along with UNCLAIMED  (boxed), sent to D. L.O MADRAS...returned to Nagercoil on 4 Oct 1930 



 

Eight Cash...thin card ..1889 with delivery cancel on the reverse.

22 July 1889...Eight Cash...'thin' post card written from Mulagumudu, posted from Colachel (as there is no Travancore post office then, in Mulagumudu. ..only British India post office) to Puthukkada, but was undelivered at Puthukkada (cancel not seen), probably the recipient Priest was at Kuzhithura (Kuzhithura cancel seen on the reverse).

 Another interesting fact is that it was delivered on the same day itself (22 July 1889), probably by the same Runner mail man, who must have found en-route, that the Priest is not at Puthukkada, have taken it straight to Kuzhithura. 

What is unusual, the delivery franking are seen on the reverse, instead of the obverse of the post card. Very rarely, delivery franking are seen on the reverse, rather than on the obverse...and it is mandatory that it should be on the face of the card.

Travancore first issued stamps & cards in October 1888.