1993 (31 Commemoratives, including 1 SS and 1 Definitive)

This first day cover was cancelled twice with purple ink at Narsingdi.

93-1 Tk.2 Portrait of Samad
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 800,000
Designer: Pranesh Kumar Mondal
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple)
Insert: Bi-folded off-white shiny paper, printed in brown. No English other than the salient features of the stamp.

93-2 Tk.2p Portrait of Ullah
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 500,000
Designer: Md. Motior Rahman??
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple.)
Insert: Bi-folded off-white shiny paper, printed in blue. The name Hazi Shariat Ullah is registered.

Additional: The mark after his name in the folder and on the cover designates a holy/religious person. In the U.S. this marking would indicate it is a registered name that cannot be used by others.

93-3 Tk.2 Left side of se-tenant pair – Crowd digging canal
93-4 Tk.2 Right side of se-tenant pair – Water flowing in canal and crops
2 stamps – horizontal strip of two different designs

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100 (50 sets of two different designs)
Quantity Printed: 800,000 of each value
Designer: Md. Motior Rahman
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple), Pabna
Insert: Bi-folded shiny white paper, printed in black with light blue, red and stamps in actual colors.

On the left is postally used forgery of the Tk.10 World Health stamp. Note that the image is not as clear and it is smaller in size. On the right is a genuine stamp. These forgeries were made to be sold and used for postage, not to fool collectors.

93-5 Tk.6 Face on left looking at accidents (Prevent Accidents)
93-6 Tk.10 Ring of figures around earth, weapons above (Prevent Violence)
a. forgery
2 stamps
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 500,000 of each value
Designer: Md. Nurul Islam (Tk.10) / Anower Hossain (Tk.6)??
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple), Rangpur (purple)
Insert: Tri-folded white paper, printed in dark blue.

Progressive imperf. pairs of the Completion of the 14th Century Bengali Era, issued on April 14, 1993. Note that it is not a complete set and that there are two different shades for the yellow and blue.

93-7 Tk.2 Images of memorials, animals and humans
a. imperforate
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 500,000
Designer: Md. Shamsuzzoha
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Bagerhat (purple), Barisal (purple), Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna (purple), Meherpur (purple), Narail (purple), Narsingdi (purple), Rajshahi (purple), Rangpur (purple)
Insert: Tri-folded shiny, off-white colored paper, printed in blue.

Additional: Dome progressive proofs exist:
a. imperforate yellow and blue progressive proof
b. as above but more blue in the image.

A single perforated proof is illustrated above, to the left.To the right is an imperforate pair of the blue and yellow progressive proof.

93-8 Tk.2 Image of a hand writing
a. perforated yellow and blue progressive proof”
93-9 Tk.2 Images of the alphabet, books and a small chalkboard
2 stamps
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 350,000 of each design
Designer: Md. Mozammel Hoque and Md. Muslim Miah
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Chittagong (purple), Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple), Rangpur (purple)
Insert: Bi-folded, off-white colored paper, printed in dark blue.

Additional: imperforate and perforated (listed above) yellow and blue progressive proof. Often described as missing a color, but it is not an error.

93-10 Tk.4 Portrait of Salimullah in front of red building
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 350,000
Designer: Dewan Shahnaz Shaheen
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Comilla (purple), Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple), Rangpur (purple)
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper, printing in light green.

93-11 Tk.2 Fish in center, people eating below, growing fish on the sides
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 300,000
Designer: Md. Motior Rahman
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka (black and purple)
Insert: Tri-folded, cream colored paper, printed in blue.

Additional: Imperforate yellow and blue progressive proof exists.

Unissued essay of the souvenir sheet. The stamp on the left was not approved and was changed to the image on the right. Note that the yellow, vertical text was removed from the stamp and the printing is larger. No other changes were made to the design of the sheet. Only two copies are known in collector’s hands at this time.

93-12 Tk.10 Sunderban – Boats in river, forest and animals
93-13 Tk.10 Madhabkunda Waterfall
a. color variety
93-14 Tk.10 Jaflong – Rocks in river with mountains in background
93-15 Tk.10 Kuakata – Beach and sunset
4 stamps
93-16ss Tl.50 Imperforate souvenir sheet containing the four stamps

CCM: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity of Stamps Printed: 300,000
Quantity of SSs Printed: 25,000
Designer of stamp: Md. Muslim Mia, Md. Motior Rahman and Bimanesh Chandra Biswas
Designer of SS: Motior Rahman
Printer of stamps and SS: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
First Day Cover: Yes. Commemorative postmark. The postmark used for the 6 November, 1993 Tourism Month issue is almost identical to this one. Large cover (28.2 x 13.4 cm., 11 x 5 1/4inches). SAME SIZE ENVEL0PE
Pmks. – stamps: Dhaka, Rangpur (purple)
Pmks.- SS: Dhaka, Rangpur (purple)
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper, printed in blue.

Vertical misperforation on right.

93-1 Tk.2 Portrait of Samad
1 stamp

93-18 Tk.10 Foy’s Lake
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 100,000
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark. This postmark is almost identical to the one used for the Natural Beauty of Bangladesh FDC that was issued on 16 October, 1993, Except the writing is larger.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rangpur (purple)
Insert:

Security Printing Corporation, Bangladesh Definitives (Link)

This is the same sheet as that illustrated below, but this sheet has the borders removed and is on the second size of envelope that was prepared for most of the sheets in this series.

Sheet
93-19 Tk.2 LCDR Moazzam Hussain
93-20 Tk.2 Muhammad Habibur Rahman
93-21 Tk.2 Kandoker Abu Taleb
93-22 Tk.2 Moshiur Rahman
93-23 Tk.2 Md. Abdul Muktadir
5 labels
93-24 Tk.2 Nutan Chandra Sinha
93-25 Tk.2 Syed Nazmul Haque
93-26 Tk.2 Mohammed Amin Uddin
93-27 Tk.2 Dr. N.A.M. Ffaiazul Mohee
93-28 Tk.2 Sukha Ranjan Somaddar
10 stamps and 5 labels (Ten different stamps and five labels per sheet)
a. vertical misperforation of entire sheet
b. two extra rows of perforations on bottom stamps – differs in each sheet
Two horizontal rows of five different designs, one above the other, separated by a row of five labels

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 10 and 5 labels
Quantity Printed: 300,000 of each different stamp
Designer: (1) Anowar Hossain: Lt. CDR. Moazzam Hossain, Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Nutan Chandra Sinha, Moshiur Rahman, Khandoker Abu Taleb. (2) Md. Shamsuzzoha: Syed Nazmul Haque, Dr. Mohammed Amin Uddin (3) Mozammel Hoque: Dr. NAM Faizul Mohee, Sukha Ranjan Somaddar. (4) Muslim Mia: Md. Abdul Muktadir.
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark (A small circle with large spokes which made it possible to cancel the center label and yet cancel the stamps above, below and at the sides at the same time). A large cover (27.5 x 22cm., 10 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches). The entire sheet plus the borders are found on this cover with the same cachet. FDCs also exist on a smaller size cover, which requires the border of the sheets to be removed to fit on it.
Pmks. – large envelope: Dhaka, Rangpur
Pmks. – smaller envelope: Dhaka, Rangpur
Insert: Booklet – 16 pages, plus covers. The booklets have been printed on two types of paper. One is whiter and a better quality. These were probably made for presentation to officials.

Additional: The margins of the sheets have a continuous line of gold colored writing with “Shaheed (Martyrd) Intellectual” and the year, in Bengali, outlined by two thick black bands. All stamps are chestnut and black in color.

This is the larger size First Day Cover envelope for the sheets of shaheed intellectuals. FDCs exist on the smaller and larger sized envelopes. As in the 1991 issue, there is a second line of text on the back flap of the larger envelope. It is absurdly large and is slightly larger than an 8 1/2 sheet of paper. There is no way to display it in exhibitions. Luckily, they have stopped making such large envelopes for the FDCs.

Vertically misperforated sheet. About seven sheets are known with the misperforation different in each. Another example is illustrated directly above.

Note the two extra rows of perforations on the bottom row of stamps. It is believed about seven sheets exist like this but the positions of the extra perforations are slightly different in each sheet.

This is another example of the misperforation illustrated above, but the extra perforations are closer together.

Three colors missing from the logo of the two Taka value of the set.

The left illustration above shows a normal logo with six colors. In the center is the logo missing one color, and on the right the logo missing two colors.

93-29 Tk.2 Shot put
a. three colors missing from logo
93-30 Tk.4 Runners
a. one color missing from logo
b. two colors missing from logo
c. shift in one color of logo to the right
2 stamps
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 300,000 of each value.
Designer: Md. Shamsuzzoha and Pranesh Kumar Mandal
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka. (black and red), Rangpur
Insert: Tri-folded, off-white colored paper, printed in blue.

Additional: There are six different colors in the logo. The tan in the logo of the Tk.2 value is found misplaced in many positions of the logo.

93-31 Tk.10 Image of tomb
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 400,000
Designer: Md. Shamsuzzoha
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka (black and purple), Rangpur (purple)
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper, printed in dark blue.