ECHO'S PHILA HOUSE

REVENUE

Dates of Usage: 1973 - Present (?)

Used to collect fees for certain bills, such as hotel, clothing stores, some bank transactions, etc.

1973

Map of Bangladesh.
Printer: Nasik Security, India
Perf.:
Quantity printed: 50,000,000

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
7 June 1975.

DENOMINATIONS

*15p. – red.

1974

Numeral design in plaque.
Printer: Nasik Security, India
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
16 June 1974.

DENOMINATIONS

*15p. – red.

1977

Same design as above but value changed.
Printer: Nasik Security, India
Sheet size: 160 (10 x 16)
CCM: Yes
Plate #: No
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*30p. – red
*a. double printing
*b. miscut and printed on gum side.

1977 REVENUE STAMP VARIETIES
The stamp is doubly printed, with the second impression shifted slightly to the left.
The second stamp of this strip of four has a paperfold (folded open in this image) making it look like a misperf.
Two pre-printing folds or creases in the paper.
A large paper fold in the paper affecting the third stamps from the left.
This partial stip from the bottom of a sheet of stamps is printed on the gum side.

1978

Numeral design in oval.
Printer: Harrison and Sons, England
Perf.:
CCM: Yes
Plate #: No
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
31 October 1980.

DENOMINATIONS

*30p. – red.

1980

Provisional surcharge on Harrison 1978 30p stamp.
Printer: Tongi Postal Printing Press, Bangladesh
Perf.:
CCM: Yes
Plate #: No
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
31 October 1980.

DENOMINATIONS

*20p. on 30p – red
*a. surcharge and obliteration shifted upwards, does not cover original value.

Mentioned in the top section above the stamps in box numbered “10” is “Hair cutting & washing @ 15/- P.M.” It has been suggested that this is a document submitted by a government employee for daily expenses he/she has occurred while travelling on the job. It is dated 31 October 1980.
1980 REVENUE STAMP VARIETIES

1981

Numerical design in oval.
Printer: Harrison and Sons, England
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*50p. – red
*a. imperf pair
*b vertical pair, top stamp imperf.

A savings certificate receipt with the 50p stamp on it when the person withdrew money.
REVENUE STAMP VARIETIES
The upper pair of stamps are completely imperforate, the second pair partially so, and the bottom block perforated.

1983

New “eye-shaped” design.
Printer: Mezdonarodh Niya Kniga, USSR
Perf.:

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
24 July 1984.

DENOMINATIONS

*50p. – purple and pink
*a. missing pink.

REVENUE STAMP VARIETIES
The stamp above on the left is missing the pink color. To the right is a normal stamp.

1987

Scroll above value design.
Printer: Mezdonarodh Niya Kniga, USSR
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*50p. – purple.

This cover is a total fake. It gives the appearance of revenue stamps having been used to send it through the mail. The first clue that it is not genuine is that the cancellations on the front and the reverse are in English. At this time in the history of the Bangladesh Post Office, all cancellations were in Bangla, and had been so for several years. The reverse of the cover has two similar cancellation from Charsindur. For those familiar with Bangladesh stamp collecting you know that several of the English cancelling devices were illegally purchased by Dr. Muzammel Haq after they became obsolete. He then created covers with these cancellors. He was a veterinarian who worked in the Narsindji area and unusual covers from that area are immediately suspect.

1990

Image of a tiger above denomination.
Printer: Mezdonarodh Niya Kniga, USSR
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.1 – violet-blue.

A savings certificate receipt with two Tk.2 stamps on it when the person withdrew money.
REVENUE STAMP VARIETIES

1991

Shapla (water lily). TheTk.4 stamp was reprinted in 1993 in a slightly different shade of blue.
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Perf.:

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
20 April 1993.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.2 – brown
*a. various misperforation varieties
*Tk.4 – blue
*a. various misperforation varieties.

A savings certificate reciept with the Tk.2 stamp on it when the person withdrew money.
REVENUE STAMP VARIETIES
The left vertical side of the block has multiple, horizontal perforations side-by-side, making it look like rectangular cuts. They can also be seen in the left horizontal perforations as well.
The document has a misperfed stamp on it. The thumb print is in place of a signature as the person did not know how to sign his name.

1993

Reprint of the Tk.4 denomination in a slightly different shade of blue.
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Perf.:

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
19 June 1994.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.4 – blue.

1991 BLUE SHAPLA VARIETIES
his is a fake Specimen for Approval Folder with a forged signature, etc. The stamp is most likely a forgery as well but at this point more research needs to be done.
Imperforate block of four of the blue shapla revenue stamp.
Blocks of four with misperforations.
These three solid blocks of color are found in every sheet and are the CCM. This is a novel way of doing it, not seen on other stamps.
The document has a used misperforated stamp on it.

YEAR (?)

Shapla (water lily) in center circle with a panel on each side.
Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Printed in Sheets of 200 (10 x 20)
Examples known printed on thick paper and shiny gum (Printer’s waste ?).
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
4 April 2006.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.4 – blue and purple
*a. purple center only
*b. double printing of blue
*c. imperforate
*d. various misperforations
*e. various paper folds and creases.

1991 BLUE & PURPLE SHAPLA VARIETIES
LEFT: Missing the purple. RIGHT: Missing the blue background.
Double printing of the blue background.
A block of four with the frame shifted upward.

Imperforate block of printer’s waste with no gum on the back.

The front and back of a foldover pane of the stamps. This is not printer’s waste.
Foldover causing part of a stamp to not be printed.
Misperforations due to a foldover in the stamps once they were printed.
Horizontally imperforated pane of six stamps. Printed on thick paper with very shiny gum.
Imperforate horizontally but perforations at the bottom. Printed on thick paper with shiny gum.
Imperforate horizontally but perforated at top of pane. Printed on thick paper with shiny gum.
Paper folds, slight misperforation, and distorted lines in the printing.
Two strips of stamps with the images slightly angled upwards toward the right.
An imperforate sheet of printer’s waste. Note that there are two sets of CCMs on the sheet. The second one is at the bottom of the same side of the sheet, opposite the bottom two stamps. The colors are reversed in the bottom CCM’s. The black is on the top and the purple on the bottom. There is no printer’s name on the sheet.

YEAR (?)

Shapla (water lily) in center circle with a panel on each side. This value was created to make up the change in rates to Tk.5. With quantities of the Tk.4 stamp plentiful, it was more economical to print this stamp to add to the Tk.4 stamp. The next issue was the Tk.5 stamp, illustrated below.
CCM: yes
Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Sheet size: 200 (10 x 20)
CCM: Yes
Plate #: No
Margin inscription: None
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.1 – green and pink
a. imperforate.

2008

Shapla (water lily) in the center below arch of black text.
CCMs: Yes. Printer’s waste seen with no CCMs or just pink.
Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Printed in Sheets of 200 (10 x 20)
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

Approved revenue design along with 4 different other essay designs. Approve by “Senior Additional Secretary”, Internal Resource Department, Government of Bangladesh. Note that the word “REVENUE” in English was added to the design. Some of the essays do not have it, nor do they have a value stated.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.5 – pink and black
*a. imperforate of black frame only
*b. imperforate
*c. various misperforations.

PINK REVENUE VARIETIES
Imperforate printer’s waste of the black printing only. inserted here
Printer’s waste of an imperforate sheet (Only a small portion of the sheet is illustrated here), with a pink CCM. In addition to the foldover the black is shifted to the left on all stamps.
Deep pink color misperfed.
This another sheet (Only a small portion shown) of imperforate printer’s waste. The color is lighter than the issued stamp and there is no CCM on it.

This imperforate sheet of printer’s waste has a slight shift of the black to the right of the pink image that progressively gets smaller as one goes down the sheet, until it is normal. There is no CCM on the sheet.

A block of four with the two different colored CCMs.
Partial sheet of printer’s waste with two shades of the pink color on the left three stamps. The sheet is imperforate and has a pink CCM, but no black CCM. Also, the CCM is not placed in the same position to the stamps, as the one illustrated above. It is at the end of a margin.
Because the stamps were printed before the perforations were made, this is a misalignement of the perforations – they are shifted to the left. The reason was that the sheet was trimmed improperly, not leaving a margin on the right side of the sheet, and a wider margin on the left.

YEAR (?)

Shapla (water lily) in a circle under an arch of green text.
CCM: (?)
Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Printed in Sheets of 200 (10 x 20)
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.10 – green and blue.

GREEN REVENUE VARIETIES

This block of twelve stamps has a paper fold and in the area where the fold is (Bottom right corner) the text is printed double. There is a faint cancellation on the back of the pane that is not totally readable. What can be read is “17 12 ?”. As a precaution against fraud when a sheet of stamps was purchased, a cancelation was put on the back. In all reality this would not deter forgers as they could make a canceling device and cancel the back themselves.
The above illustrations are of a bottom of a sheet of stamps. After the stamp was printed, the paper evidently was torn and folded back before the perforations were made. As a result, when the fold is put back in place, there is a crazy pattern of perforations.
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