The sun is not centered on the flag and the bottom of the stamp shows a shift upwards of the figures and colors. Due to the low number of stamps printed for each issue, small varieties like this are very popular and often command high prices.
This is a block of four of 08-1b, showing the double perforations on the right side of the block.
08-1 Tk.10 People and Bangladesh flag
a. misregistration of colors
b. double vertical perforations on right
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: A.T.M. Anowarul Quadir
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
08-2 Tk.10 Images of flooding
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative Pmk.
Pmks.: Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Anowar Hossain
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
The Sundarbans souvenir sheet with a minor perforation shift upwards of the horizontal perforations. These are very common.
08-3 Tk.10 Herd of deer
08-4 Tk.10 River
08-5 Tk.10 Collecting honey
08-6 Tk.10 Tiger
08-1ss Tk.50 Perf. SS containing a block of four different stamps
a. horizontal perfs. shifted up, leaving a gap at the top between them and the vertical perfs. Lower perfs. into the stamp designs. These shifts are common in this issue.
08-2ssi Tk.50 Imperf. SS containing a block of four different stamps.
4 stamps (Block of four) and 2 SSs (Perf. and imperf.). See “Comments” for special folder)
CCMs-stamps: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet-stamps: 100 (25 blks of four)
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer stamps: Annowar Hossain and BPO (Design advisor K.G. Mustafa)
Designer SS’s: Anowarul Quadir
Printer of stamps and SS’s: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC-stamps and SS’s: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.- stamps: Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi
Pmks.-SS: Dhaka
Pmks.-imperf. SS: Dhaka
Insert:Tri-folded, cream colored paper, printed in green.
Cachet Designer: A.T.M. Anowarul Quadir
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
Additional: A special folder exists with a picture of the Sundarbans on the cover and back. The folder opens and contains a block of four of the stamps and both a perf. and imperf. SS. It is interesting that the front cover is in Bengali, but the lengthy description on the back is only in English.
The block of four stamps and the imperforate and perforate SSs are enclosed in plastic sleeves and the sleeves glued to the booklet.
The CCM for this issue is in the bottom left corner. Because each stamp was only printed in one color, there is only one color in the box.
08-7 Tk.3 Green – Square design
08-8 Tk.3 Red – Square design
08-9 Tk.6 White with gold – Circle
08-10 Tk.6 Gold with white – Circle
4 stamps
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Suleman Poonja, Mohammad Adra, Miraz Nanjii
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Original – Dakka
Reprint – Dhaka (black, red, green)
Insert: Bifolded cream colored paper, printed in gold
Cachet Designer: Sulieman Poonja, Mohammed Adra, Minaz Nanji
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
Additional: The FDC envelopes sold out and a second printing was made. The second printing is in a lighter colored ink. The envelope is slightly different size and the first printing has a bubble in the ink in the circle at the lower right. I have not been able to locate any bubble, and the covers appear to be almost the same size. The first printing is the scarcer of the two.
A presentation pack consisting of the cover and an envelope exist.
This is the first government prepared FDC wtih a design on the back flap.
Scarce imperforate block of the four stamps
08-11 Tk.10 Runners
08-12 Tk.15 Shooters
a. missing part of gun barrel
08-13 Tk.20 Small mascots
08-14 Tk.25 Two stamps and a drawing
4 stamps in a se-tenant block
a. imperforate block of four of the four stamps.
CCMs: N/A
Plate #: N/A
Sheet: N/A
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Jashim Uddin & Amirul Haque Mallick
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Dhaka (black, green, red), Khulna (red)
Insert:
Cachet Designer: Anowar Hossain
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.8.
08-2ssi Tk.50 Imperforate souvenir sheet
1 SS
CCMs: N/A
Plate #: N/A
Sheet: N/A
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Jashim Uddin
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Privately made only. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: SS comes in a stiff paper folder that opens from the bottom and folds up. The inside top of the folder has the information about the sheet (as listed above), and the bottom has a pocket near the bottom for holding the sheet.
The top image is of the cover of the government prepared folder for this issue. The center is the opened folder, showing the pocket at the bottom (without a SS), and the last image of the back of the folder.
The envelope is missing a color, which is most likely the yellow as the background of the Bangladesh flag is blue on the cover. Note that the red is also printed double, as evidenced by the double red logo on the back of the envelope.
This is the only known copy of this error to date.
08-3ss Tk.30. Souvenir sheet
a. imperforate
b. various degrees of major misperforations of vertical perforations to the left
The sheet contains the following:
08-15o Tk.3 – Khepupara radar station
a. perforation shift left
08-16o Tk.7 – Vocational training program
a. perforations shift left
08-17o Tk.10 – Polio vaccination program
a. perforations shift left
08-18o Tk.10 – Jamuna multi-purpose brige
a. perforations shift left
1 SS – 4 stamps in one sheet
CCMs: N/A
Plate #: N/A
Sheet: N/A
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Jashim Uddin
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert:
Cachet Designer: Jashimuddin (Jashim Uddin)
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
Additional: The individual stamps in this sheet are given numbers as they were not issued in any other form.
08-19 Tk.10 Stylized drawing of industry
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rajshahi
Insert: Shiney white card stock, printed in dark blue.
Cachet Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, tajgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
08-20 Tk.4 Man smiling, below people gathering crops
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Agriculture Information Service
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Bogra, Dhaka
Insert: Shiney white card stock, printed in dark blue.
Cachet Designer: Agriculture Information Service
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
A pane with a major shift in the perforations and with different measurements between the perforation lines (horizontally). They get progressivly wider as you go down the stamp.
08-21 – Tk.6 Old gate in city
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: K. G. Mustafa
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Bogra, Dhaka, Khulna (red), Rajshahi
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
08-22 Tk.10 View of beach
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 90
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Jashim Uddin
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Aminul Haque Mallick
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
08-23 Tk.3 Person looking at building with logos of signs below image
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Anowar Hossain
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
08-24 Tk.3 Images of restrooms, boiling water, etc.
a. on green paper
1 stamp
CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Sajjad Khan
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Bogra (purple), Dhaka
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: B(angladesh) P(ost) O(ffice)
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6.
The pack also includes a copy of the National Tree Plantation Campaign 2008 postal card. Cost of the pack was 350 Tk. or $5 US.
