ECHO'S PHILA HOUSE

Dates of Usage: 1973 - 1987

This is a “Catch-all” phrase to tax transactions that did not fall under any of the other categories. The fee can be proportional or a flat fee.

1973

Horizontal stamp (18 x 30mm) with image of Shapla (Water lily).
Printer: Naski Security Printing Press, India
Perf.: 13 1/2

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
11 November 1976.

DENOMINATIONS

5p. – violet
10p. – violet
*20p. – violet
*25p. – violet
*50p. – violet
*75p. – violet
*Tk.1 – prussian blue
*Tk.2 – prussian blue
*Tk.3 – prussian blue
*Tk.4 – prussian blue
*Tk.5 – prussian blue
*Tk.6 – blue
Tk.8 – prussian blue
Tk.50 – carmine-purple.

REPRINT AND ADDITIONAL VALUE (?)

*Tk.1 – grayish-brown
*Tk.10 – red.

1976

Smaller than above stamps (23 x 28 1/2mm). Image of Shapla (Water lily).
Printer: Werbwer Druckerei, DDR
Perf.: 13

Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
8 August 1979.

DENOMINATIONS

*25p – blue
*50p – bkue
75p – blue
Tk.1 – violet
*Tk.2 – violet
*Tk.3 – violet
*Tk.5 – violet
*Tk.10 – violet
Tk.20 – violet
*Tk.100 – violet

A letter mailed from the Sonali Bank using regular postage stamps and two copies of the Tk.2 Special Adhesive revenue stamp.

YEAR (?)

Image of a Shapla (water lily) in a circle with a panel below it with the denomination and text.
Printer: Government Printing and Mint Agency, South Korea
Perf.: 13
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*25p – indigo
*50p – vermilion
*75p – green
*Tk.1 – red
*Tk.2 – blue
*Tk.3 – orangish-red
*Tk.4 – green
*Tk.5 – blue-green
*Tk.6 – orange
*Tk.10 – yellow-green
*Tk.20 – reddish-orange
*Tk.30 – maroon
*Tk.40 – green
Tk.50 – blue
Tk.100 – color (?)
Tk.200 – color (?)
Tk.500 – color (?)

This sheet of 200 5 Poisha Entertainment Tax Stamps has the value listed on the upper right.

1980

Provisional. Foreign Bill stamps overprinted in black in Bangla, with “Speial” overprinted at the top, a bar over “Foreign Bill” at the bottom and above the bar in Bangla “Adhesive Stamp”.
Printer: Obliteration done locally
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage”

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.50 – blue
*Tk.100 – blue.

1980(?)

Original printing – Curved band with large numbers below.
Printer: Harrison and Sons, London
Perf.: 14
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
1? December 1982 – 3 September 1987

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.20 – orangish-brown
*Tk.40 – olive brown
*Tk.80 – brown
*Tk.100 – purple
*Tk.200 – violet
*Tk.500 – orangish-red

A document from 1984 with forty Tk.200 stamps on it.
The stamp images is the same as above but the margin between the stamps is larger, leaving a larger white space around each stamp. Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh Perf.: 14 Tk.100 – yellow

1982

Shapla (water lily) in band across stamp, under band above it. Script in upper band is 18 1/2mm long.
Printer: The Times Press (Private) Ltd., Pakistan
Perf.: 14
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

3 September 1987

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.3 – pale blue and turquoise
*Tk.10 – deep green and orange
*Tk.30 – dark and light brown
*Tk.50 – dark green and light blue
*Tk.100 – dark orange and yellow
*Tk.200 – dark blue and gray
*Tk.500 – light and dark orange

This partial document from the Sonali Bank, Khulna Branch has no date on the page, but it has 142 Tk.500 stamps on it for a total fee of Tk.71,000.

Reprint of same design with the script in the upper band 17 1/2mm long.
Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh.
Perf.: 14 (?)
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
DENOMINATIONS

Tk.10 -deep gray-green and orange
Tk.100 – dark red and yellow
Tk.200 – dark blue and gray.

1984

Image of two roses.
Printer: Mezdonarodh Niya Kniga, USSR (Size: 22 1/2 x 29mm)
Perf.: 12
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

25p – color (?)
50p – color (?)
75p – color (?)
*Tk.1 – green
*Tk.2 – deep orange
*Tk.3 – Scarlet-red
*Tk.5 – deep blue
*Tk.10 – lighter blue
*Tk.20 – brown
Tk.30 – purple.

Describing the various colors of many of the stamps is difficult due to the slight differences in some of the colors. Here are two values from the same set of stamps. On the left are two shades of the Tk.5 and on the right a Tk.10 that is is almost identical. Note the differences in the sizes of the numerical and written denomination.

Reprinted with less refined shading on the flowers.
Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh (Size: 24 x 29 1/2)
Perf.: 14
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.30 – purple.

1986(?)

Two types of overprints exist for these provisional stamps:

1) Foreign Bill stamp overprinted in black with “Special” at the top in Bangla and a bar at the bottom over “Foreign BIll” and “Adhesive Stamp” in Bangla directly above the bar.
Printer: Overprint done locally
2) Foreign Bill stamp overprinted in red with “Special” at the top in Bangla and a thin red line at the bottom through “Foreign BIll” and “Adhesive Stamp” in red in Bangla directly above the line.

Printer: Overprint done locally
Perf.:
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
1? December 1982.

Black overprint shifted to the left.

DENOMINATIONS

Black Overprint
*Tk.50 – green

Red Overprint
*Tk.100 – yellowish-orange.

1985 - 1987 (?) Unissued ?

This stamp, portraing an image of the national bird of Bangladesh may, or may not have been issued.
Printer: Unknown
Perf.:

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.20 – green and brown.

1986

Floral design with bottom panel inscription larger and closer to the left and right sides of the panel. Also the numbers are smaller on the bicolored stamps and do not have a white space around them as the lower values do.
Printer: Mezdonarodh Niya Kniga, USSR
Perf.: 12
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:
2 September 1995

DENOMINATIONS

*25p. – magenta
*50p. – red
*75p. – brown
*Tk.1 – yellowish-brown
*Tk.2 – slate
*Tk.3 – blue
*Tk.5 – green
*Tk.20 – green and yellow
Tk.25 – brown and orange
*Tk.40 – purplish-red and yellow
Tk.50 – light purple and salmon.

The above shipping document, dating from 2 September 1995, has six 50p special adhesives on it that were cancelled twice with a rubber stamp with two lines of text.

Floral design with bottom panel inscription smaller and further away from the left and right sides of the panel.
Printer: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Perf.: 14
CCM: Yes

Reprinted by the Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Perf.: 14
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

DENOMINATIONS

Tk.5 – green
*Tk.25 – brown and orange
*imperf.
*Tk.50 – blue and salmon

Two copies of the Tk.50 stamp. The one on the left must be a forgery. Notice the crude perforations, color of the paper and the shade of the stamp. The perforations make this suspect.
This is the upper portion of a document with a Tk.50 stamp of the printing by the Security Printing Press, Bangladesh.

1987

Stars and leaves in the form of a flowering plant. The series was reprinted by the Security Pringing Press, Bangladesh.
Printer: Mezdonarodh Niya Kniga, USSR
Perf.: 12
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

Reprint: Security Printing Press, Bangladesh
Perf.: 14
Earliest and latest dates of documented usage:

TOP: The Russian pringing has the text larger and it extends to the left beyond the Taka symbol, at the bottom of the stamp image. BOTTOM: The Bangladesh printing has a smaller text and it does not extend to the left beyond the Taka symbol.

Mezdonarodh Niya Kniga Printing
DENOMINATIONS

Tk.100 – pink and purple
Tk.200 – orange and prussian blue
*Tk.500 – red, blue and green
*Tk.1000 – brown,orange and blue
a. imperforate

This page was originally attached to a document as there are staple holes at the upper left corner. The page has 52 Tk,500 stamps from the Russian printing, a total fee of Tk.26,000.

YEAR (?) Unissued

It is believed that this stamp was never issued.
Printer: unknown
Perf.:

DENOMINATIONS

*Tk.100 – yellow and red.

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