1891..3 Chuckram envelope.. Manuscript of Registered & Pillar Post.

An extremely rare handwritten usage of  'REGISTERED. .No 206  Weight 1/2 tola'....and 'Munambom 66-9-13' (13-9-66.. ie 25 April 1891)....also scarce usage of hand written place and date.

 April 25, 1891....Three Chuckram envelope registered from Munambam (pen written by postmaster, with the date in Malayalam numericals....66-9-13.....that is Malayalam year 1066 Medam 13.....April 25, 1891) via Paravoor to Kottayam (despatch cancel missing).

Registered charges.. 2 Chuckram & Postage 1 Chuckram.

'Thi-76' (also Thalavady)... Munambom....a small village bordering Travancore & Cochin......previously this number is known under Paravoor...as per recorded..though Paravoor is the  nearest designated post office.

Munambom.. a pick up point...a Pillar post..

Paravoor is earlier located under 3 'Thi' numbers...38, 64 & 76.

Thi-38 belongs to North Paravoor.

Thi-64 belongs to South Paravoor.

This envelope is posted from Munambam via Paravoor to Kottayam.Also in Malayalam manuscript is Registration with number.

As Munambam is a mail pickup point, does not have a registration, despatch or delivery seal in that period of usage. Hence, it has to be pen cancelled by the Anchal man.

1889 Manuscript Registration and Prestamp usage of Boxed Registered..Thi 46..Kanjirapally.

 1889 One Chuckram envelope uprated by 2 Ch stamp ( Registration..2 Ch & Postage 1 Ch) from Kanjirapally to  Trivandrum.

Scarce usage of manuscript of Registration   No / Weight... along with the boxed 'REGISTERED'.

And Thi-46...is shared by Kanjirapally & Mundakayam...of course, in different period of time. 

No 76

രൂപയിട  1/4തൂക്കം

1821 & 1853 Quilon & Trivandrum cancellations.

QUILON POST FREE..7th  December 1821 

TRIVANDRUM Bearing, As 3  1853  October 13

TRIVANDRUM Bearing, Rs 1As 8. 1853 November 2

1937 Brussels (Belgium) to Trivandrum airmail cover

1937 flight cover from Brussels to Trivandrum via Karachi.  Travel time is 10 days...

Despatched from Brussels (Belgium)..5 Jan,1937

Transit station @ Karachi...9 January.

Delivered @ Trivandrum..15 Janunary. 

 

 

Pillar post manuscript cancel...Pallikkal pick up box via Kayamkulam

1895 Eight Cash card picked up from a Pillar box @ Pallikkal (12/May /1895....

'30-9-70 പള്ളിക്കൽ'.....duly pen stroked on the card by the Anchal Man, with the nearest designated anchal office at Kayamkulam (13/May) to Edapally (14 May).

Pallikkal anchal office which opened as an experimental office in 1889 had to close its office as it is not profitable to carry forward.  Started once again functioning & this time, as a Village anchal office from the year 1077 (1901-'02)....what started as a mail pick up point into a full fledged post office.

 Example of Pallikkal circular dated Stamp of 1890.

1882 (pre-adhesive) Letter Receipt from Ambalapuzha (Travancore) to the Dewan of Cochin.

1882 a.d....Official (Sarkar Karyam) Registered Letter Receipt (to be returned)....ഉറപ്പ് കത്തു രസീത് (തിരിയെ അയക്കേണ്ടതു)

1882 a.d....pre-adhesive period  official Letter Receipt (for registered..ഉറപ്പു കത്ത് ), posted late (scroll cancel... Nitepoke), from Ambalapuzha (Travancore) via North Paravur (Thekken Paravur....transit point of Travancore) , addressed to the Cochin Dewan, with the Ernakulam conch black round seal....'എറണാകുളത്തു അ.....'  probably അപ്പിസ്സ്  or അഞ്ചൽ.

...Posted late (reverse side.. scroll type  'Nithepoke' in vernacular language) from Ambalapuzha (1058 Dhanu 4....18 December, 1882) to Ernakulam (Dhanu 6...20 December) via transit station of Thekken(North) Paravur (1058 Dhanu 5....19 December, 1882)

10 years before the launch of adhesive stamps & covers in Cochin &
6 years prior to the release of adhesive stamps & envelopes in Travancore.

Scarce & Rare..only one reported, so far.

Reverse side of the receipt. 

Posted late (reverse side.. scroll type  'Nithepoke' in vernacular language) from Ambalapuzha (1058 Dhanu 4....18 December, 1882) to Ernakulam  via transit station of Thekken(North) Paravur (1058 Dhanu 5....19 December, 1882)

1861 Registered cover from Cochin to Bombay

1861 (Feb 20) registered cover from Volkart Brothers, Cochin to their office in Bombay (March 06) bearing C-130 (in diamond of dots) cancelled on 1 Anna brown & 4 Anna black Victoria stamps...certified by Peter Holcombe.

Very scarce.

 

REGISTERED No