A First Day Cover from Chittagong, missing the brown color in the cachet.
79-1 40p Portrait of Jasimuddin
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes (Separate from Plate Number)
Plate #: 1A
Sheet: 50
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Pranesh Kumar Mandal
Printer: John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd., UK
FDC: Yes. Generic postmark – FIRST DAY OF ISSUE/city
Pmk.s: Bogra, Chittagong, Comilla, Dacca (purple)
Insert: Pale green card stock. The quantity of stamp printed is not given.
79-2 40p Portrait of Bhasani
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: 1B
Sheet: 50
Quantity Printed: 500,000
Designer: Pranesh Kumar Mandal
Printer: John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd., UK.
FDC: Yes. Small generic postmark – FIRST DAY OF ISSUE/date/DACCA
Pmks.: Chittagong (purple), Dacca, Rajshahi
Insert:
79-3 40p Portrait of Sir Roland Hill
79-4 Tk.3.50 Hill and first stamp of Bangladesh
a. offset on back
79-5 Tk.10 Hill and Bangladesh UPU stamp with runner
3 stamps
79-1ss Tk.13.90 Perforated souvenir sheet with the three stamps
CCMs: Yes 40p (Plate number 1A – guide is separate from plate number, 1B it is not separate)
Plate #: 40p (1A and 1B), Tk.3.50 (1B) and Tk.10 (1A)
Sheet: 50
Quantity Printed: unknown
Quantity of SS printed: unknown
Designer: Ahmed Fazlul Karim
Designer of souvenir sheet: Ahmed Fazlul Karim
Printer of stamps and SS: Harrison & Sons Ltd., UK
FDC: Yes. Two different cancellations 1 Small generic postmark – FIRST DAY OF ISSUE/date/DACCA, 2 Larger with FIRST DAY OF ISSUE at the bottom. Two covers, one for the set of stamps and a larger one with the same cachet for the souvenir sheet.
Pmks. – stamps: Chittagong (purple), Bogra, Dacca, Jessore (black)
Pmks. – SSs: Bogra
Insert:
Rare imperforate souvenir sheet. It is believed that only two or three sheets exist.
79-6 40p Boys with hoops and emblem of IYC
79-7 Tk.3.5 Boy with kite
79-8 Tk.5 Children jumping and emblem of IYC
3 stamps
79-2ss TK.8.90 Perforated souvenir sheet with the three stamps
a. imperforate
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: 1A and 1B (Possibly 1B for Tk.3.50 and Tk.5)
Sheet: 50
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Pranesh Kumar Mandal
Printer: Harrison & Sons, Ltd., UK
FDC: Yes. Two different postmarks: 1) Commemorative and, 2) a generic postmark – “DACCA, BANGLADESH/date/FIRST DAY OF ISSUE”
Two different private cachets also exist with the generic postmark, one for the set of stamps and the other for the SS.
Pmks. – stamps: Chittagong (purple), Dacca, Rajshahi
Pmks. – SS: Dacca
Insert: Light gray card stock, printed in black. Quantity of stamps printed not given.
Covers are privately produced for the International Year of the Child, 1979. Note that the cancellations are different from the government envelopes above them. The souvenir sheet for the issue is on a plain, non-governmental issued envelope.
