Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga Printing (Service)

21 December 1983 - SERVICE overprints in English with red ink

Very rare First Day Cover of the definitive stamps with the SERVICE overprint. All the poisha value stamps have a horizontal overprint, but the Taka values, which are horizontal in desgn, have the angled overprint. The cover bears a Dhaka cancellation. Like the definitive FDC, it is on the World Communications Year 1983 envelope created for the World Communications Year stamps that were issued on the same day as the definitives and SERVICE overprinted stamps. CCMs: No

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 5p -, 10p – 100, 15p -, 20p -, 25p -, 30p -, 50p -, Tk.1 -, Tk.2 -, Tk.5
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Unknown
Printer: Mezhdunarodnava Kniga, USSR
FDC: No
Pmks.: N/A
Insert: N/A

Additional: The smaller sized stamps have the overprint placed on it horizontally, while the larger stamps have it place diagonally. It is often hard to see it on the smaller stamps. Overinking and perforation errors are found in many of these issues. The entire set was reprinted on a cream colored paper.

Numerous misperforation varieties can be found in most of the definitive sets of Bangladesh.

Date of Issued: 15 January 1976

5p Mailboat – light bluish-green

10p Dacca Post Office counter -magenta

15p IWTA Terminal – blue

20p Sorting (mail) in running railway van – gray

This cover was mailed from Dhaka from the office of the Inspector-General of Police, to the Chief of Police, Copenhagen, Denmark. There are no receiving marks on the cover. It was mailed on 4 December 1991 and bears 10 of the 20p Mail Sorting stamps, 10 of the Tk.1 Kamalapur Railway Station stamps, and a single Tk.5 stamp from the Ashur printing of 1976.

25p Mail delivery – slate

30p Postman at mailbox – purplish-brown

50p Mobile post office – light brown a. diagonal overprint (later overprint) b. inverted diagonal overprint

10p Dacca Post Office counter -magenta

This stamp was not originally issued with the diagonal overprint, only the horizontal one. Later, the Russian printed it with the diagonal overprint. Above are examples with the diagonal overprint and an inverted diagonal overprint. This is the only stamp from this set that had the two varieties of overprints. Also the diagonal overprint is seen on the above cover, what appears to be dated 20 October 1985. At the bottom of the cover is a P.O. slogan, “Use G E P Money Order Service to send your money.”

Tk.1 Kamalapur railway station – blue

Tk.2 Zia International Airport – dark greenish-blue 9 stamps

27 July 1992 - SERVICE overprint in red in English

92-1s Tk.4 Red overprint in English on Chittagong Port – dark blue and TK.5 Khulna GPO – rose-purple 92-2s TK.5 Khulna GPO – rose-purple
2 stamps

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 200
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Unknown
Printer: Mezhdunarodnava Kniga, USSR
FDC:
Pmks.:
Insert: None.

16 September 1992 - SERVICE overprint

This stamp was printed in Russia, but the overprint was added by the Postal Printing Press, in Bangladesh. Note that the quality of the overprint is not as good as that on the other stamps on the Bangladesh page. The others, in Bangla, were done by the Security Press, whereas this was done by the Postal Printing Press that prints the FDC envelopes, inserts. etc..

Note the position of the SERVICE overprint on the stamp. It is not the same as the single stamp illustrated above it.

Additional: It is said that this is the most expensive of all the SERVICE stamps due to the small number that was overprinted. Numerous misperforation varieties can be found in most of the definitive sets of Bangladesh.

Tk.1 Red overprint in Bangla on Kamalpur Railway Station stamp – light blue
a. double red overprint – one printed over the other
b. double overprint – side by side, left one smeared as if someone tried to remove it
c. double overprint – one above the other. the top overprint is smeared
1 stamp
CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 200
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer of ovpt.: Unknown
Printer of ovpt.: Postal Printing Press, Bangladesh
FDC:
Pmks.:
Insert: None.

16 July 1994 – Loading Cargo Plane SERVICE overprint

94-1s Tk.3 Red overprint in English Loading Cargo Plane – multicolored
1 stamp

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 200
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer of ovpt.: Unknown
Printer of ovpt.: ****
FDC:
Pmks.:
Insert: None

Additional: See the link in the Table of Contents for the SERVICE overprints for a different overprint on this stamp. Numerous misperforation varieties can be found in most of the definitive sets of Bangladesh.

10 October 1994 – Curzon Hall SERVICE overprint

94-2s Tk.5 Blue overprint in Bangla at right on Curzon Hall (#89-2d) – chestnut and black

a. overprint shifted up
b. overprint shifted down
1 stamp

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 200? Currently 180
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Nurul Islam
Printer: ****
FDC: None
Pmks.: N/A
Insert: None.

23 August 1996 - SERVICE overprinted in Bengali in black and red

10p black overprint on Dacca Post Office counter (#83-2d)- magenta

20p red overprint on Sorting (mail) in railway van (#83-4d) – gray
2 stamps
CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 200? Currently 180
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer:
Printer:
FDC: Yes
Pmks.: World Communications Year cancellation used
Insert: None.