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FOREIGN BILL

Dates of Usage: 1978 - ca. 1998

Foreign Bill stamp were used on money exchanges, letters of credit and bill of exchange.

1978 - 1998(?)

Denomination in center circle with points radiating from it.
Printer: West Germany and Government Printing and Mint Agency, Korea
Perf.: 14
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
28 November 1982 – 21 September 1988.

DENOMINATIONS

*25p – orange
*50p. – pale orange
*75p. – pale orange (Only seen with INSURANCE and bar overprint to date. May not have been issued with this series.)
*Tk.1 – blue
*Tk.2 – blue
*Tk.3 – blue
*Tk.10 – blue
*Tk.20 blue
*Tk.30 – blue.

There are fourteen Tk.1 and two Tk.20 stamps on the back of this document, dated 19, September 1980.
The front and back of a foreign bill document dated 14 June 1985 regarding the Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation of Dhaka paying CMT-Enterprise of Bucharest, Romania $110,053.14 and 15% in U.S. dollars. The document has the stamp of the Rupali Bank of Bangladesh on it. The money is to be paid to the Romanian Bank for Foreign Trade, in Bucharest. There are fifty Tk.10 stamps, one hundred and ten Tk.2 stamps, twenty Tk.3 stamps and sixty-five Tk.30 stamps, for a total of two hundred and forty-five stamps.

1982 (?)

Denomination in a circle, surrounded by scrollwork.
Printer: Government Printing and Mint Agency, Korea
Perf.: 14

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
28 November 1982 – 9 July 1998.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.1 – dark green
*Tk.2 – light green
Tk.3 – yellow-green
Tk.6 – color (?)
*Tk.10 – yellowish-orange
*Tk.20 – redish-purple
*Tk.30 – dark orange
*Tk.50 – green (Not known if issued, but was issued with a “Special Adhesive” black overprint in 1986 (?)).
*Tk.100 – gold (Not known if issued, but was issued with a “Special Adhesive” red overprint in 1986 (?).

Six Tk10 stamps on the reverse of a Bill of Exchange, dated 10 December 1993. The stamps are canceled with the Rupali Bank of Dhaka cancelor.

1989 (?)

With no information officially available for this issue it is difficult to determine what was issued and when. Evidently there are two different designs, but three diffferent sizes of the stamps.

1) Wide frame around stamp with large writing at the top and bottom. Bottom arch has writing touching the points of the image.
2) Small frame around stamp with largest writing at top and bottom. Bottom arch has writing touching the points of the image.
3) Wide frame around stamp as in number one. Writing is smaller than the large writing in number one and number two. The writing in the frame at the bottom does not touch the point of the image.

Note that the text in the top two stamps are in line with the pointed part of the design in the bottom panel. In the bottom stamp it does not reach the end of the pointed part of the design.

Angled spokes around a circle. Frame around stamp very visible and text in arches is smaller and does not reach the ends of the points in the bottom panel.
Printer:
Perf. 12
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
6 June 1998 – 21 June 2010.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.5 – light and dark green
*Tk.10 – light and dark blue
*Tk.20 – yellow and green
*Tk.30 – purple and green
*Tk.50 – brown and green (Shades of the brown exist)
*Tk.100 – red and green (Shades of the green exist)

One side of a document with ninety three Tk.50 stamps on it and one Tk.10 stamp. There are stamps on the reverse as well. The document is dated 21 June 2010.

Year (?)

Angled spokes around a circle. Stamp is smaller in size and frame around stamp not as visible. Text at top and bottom is large.
Printer: The Times Press (Private) Ltd., Pakistan
Perf. 12

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
30 December 1987

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.20 – red and pink
*Tk.30 – purple and blue
*Tk.50 – dark and light blue (Shades of the light blue exist)
*Tk100 – reddish-purple and gray
Angled spokes around a circle. Frame around stamp very visible and text in arches is larger. Smaller stamp size.
Printer:
Perf.
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
Tk.30 – 28 November 1982.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.5 (?) – black and orange (?)
*Tk.10 – red
*Tk.30 – reddish orange and pink.

To the left is a Tk.30 stamp with the smallest width design with a wide frame and larger sized text. The next two stamps are the Tk.20 values from two of the different designs. The left one has a very small frame around it and the largest text. It is the middle sized stamp.The third, yellow stamp, has a wide frame around it and is the widest of the three designs. It has smallest text. The Tk.100 stamp on the far right is the same as the Tk.20 yellow stamp.
The thin framed Tk.50 stamp can pose real problems. With no official information released for the revenue stamps, it often becomes an educated guess, or someone working with them at the time may have some information. The stamp on the left is perf. 14 1/2 and is dark blue and light blue. The stamps on the right are perf. 12 1/2 and are a lighter shade of dark blue and blue-green. To complicate matter more, the stamp on the far right has slightly different shades of both colors. The stamp on the left has a very crisp and clear Taka symbol, but the other two are not as well defined and are slight thicker. Additionally, there are very distinctive white lines in places around the numbers. Particularily evident at the top left of the number five is a white curved line. This is not found on the stamp on the left, although there are some thinner white lines in the other places of the numbers.
This partial Bill of Exchange not only has three foreign stamps on it but one Tk.1, five Tk.3, four Tk.20 and two Tk.20 stamps. The Tk.20 and Tk.50 stamps are the ones with the not very visible frame around them. It is dated on the front 30 July 1986. The back has written in pen, 20 July 1987. The holes punched in the card and stamp is not a way of cancelling the stamps but is a common practice in Asia of filing papers by punching holes in then and putting them in a binder or stacking them on an item with two fastners.

1989

Wreath design in center with denomination and text.
Printer:
Perf.
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
21 September 1988 – 9 July 1998.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.5 – blue
*Tk.10 – green
*Tk.20 – purple and blue
*Tk.30 – red and yellow
+Tk.100 – brown and yellow.

Indian and Bangladeshi Foreign Bill revenue stamps on a document from 21 September 1988.

Year (?)

Excuse the poor quality image but no other is available at this time. When one is available it will replace this one.

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.1 – orange
*Tk.3 – orange

Additional values may exist.

1990 (?)

Large stamp (3 x 4 1/4 cm.). Complicated design. with white panel in the center with denomination and text and another white panel below with text.
Printer:
Perf. 12
Sheet size: 10 x 5
CCM: no
Plate number: no
Margin inscription: no
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage: 6 June 1998.

DENOMINATIONS

Tk.20 – orange and blue.

This Bill of Exchange poses problem for collectors trying to date it. Written above the upper right margin is “Due on 9/8/98”. Directly below it is “DATE: 06/06/98″. Written in the area of the magenta stamp is 7/6/98”. Typed near the bottom center is “Dated 3rd June 1998”, and in the bottom right corner is “Date 98/03/25”. At least we know the document dates from 1998.
This page was originally attached to a document. This page has a full sheet of this stamp on both sides of it. Since it is detached from the original document there is no way of telling the date these were used.
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