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Postal Cards
18 April 1972

Design: 10 p. single – Green portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Indian Security Press, Nasik
Quantity printed: The Nasik order was for 10,464,000 cards.
Size: 140 x 88 mm.

A fantastic error with much of the printing on a torn piece of card that was on top of the sheet of paper stock when the cards were printed.
Errors, Freaks, and Oddities
These were tears in the paper that was repaired with paper tape before the cards were printed. As a result, part of the printing is on the paper tape. The card was printed in India, for the Bangladesh Government, and this is very typical of repairs made on many Indian postal cards. The difference in the colors of the cards is due to the fact that the images were made on different scanners. There are slight paper differences, but not to this extreme.
Postal Card errors are very rare and highly desirable items to add to one’s collection. Miscut Postal Cards are uncommon, but not rare. They too are good items to have in one’s collection. They are seldom offered on the international philatelic market.
A very good example of a postal card that is miscut.
A fantastic error with much of the printing on a torn piece of card that was on top of the sheet of paper stock when the cards were printed.
15 February 1973

Design: 10 p. Double Reply Card – Green portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Indian Security Press, Nasik
Quantity printed: The Nasik order was for 890,000 cards.
Size: 140 x 88 mm.

Errors, Freaks, and Oddities
The above Reply card has the single card printed on it back, out of line, and inverted to what it should be.
3 May 1973

Design: Strip of 4 (2 of each)- Green portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Indian Security Press, Nasik.

The front and reverse of the strip of four Postal Card and Reply Card.
Unknown Date in 1975

Design: 10 p. (x 4) Strips of 4 (2 of each) Green portraits of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Indian Security Press, Nasik
Comments: This appears to be a reprint. The length of the dotted lines is shorter than the first issue and the words in front of the dotted lines are smaller than the first issue.

The card issustrated above is only for the Reply Card, not the regular Postal Card. Below it is a comparison of the printing of the last line on the front of the card. Note the different sizes of the letters and the lengths of the lines. The reprinted card is the bottom one, with the shorter lines.
19 June 1976

Design: 15 p. Postal Card, single – Brown sheaf of rice Plants
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: McCorquadale Printers Limited, England
Size: 140 x 90 mm.

Design: 15 P. Reply card pair – Brown sheaf of rice plants
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: McCorquadale Printers Limited, England
Size: 140 x 90 mm (each card).

1 November 1976

Design: 20 p. Postal Card, single – Brown sheaf of rice plants
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Printed in England
Size: 140 x 91 mm.

A mystery date from Chittigong. This could possibly be a “pre-release” date on a postal card but nothing is known about it. The year at first looks like 1975, but then appears as if it could be 1976.
Errors, Freaks, and Oddities
An offset image on the back of the postal card. Offsets are always in reverse, as the postal card was set on a wet ink image.
Four miscut Postal Cards of the 1 November 1976 issue.
Privately printed message on Postal Card (1979)
This logo and text for the International Year of the Child (1979) was privately printed on the 20P. Postal Card. Such items are seldom seen and are rare.

Design: 20 p. Postal Card, single – Brown sheaf of rice plants
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Printed in England
Size: 140 x 91 mm.

Miscut (Horizontally) 20p, plus 5p additional postage, postal card with “Reply” card attached to it. The additional postage covers the “Reply” on the reverse. The “Reply” side is the image on the right. Issued 5 December 1989.
Unissued

Design: Tk. 1 single Postal Card – Red Shahid Minar monument
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 140 x 91 mm.

This Postal Card Design was most likely not issued due to the design of the box in the bottom right corner. It reads, in Bengali, “Code No”. The card below is identical except the box now reads, “PO. Code No”. Also note that the postage rate has gone up to Tk. 1, to mail a Postal Card.
25 May 1991

Design: Tk. 1 single Postal Card – Red Shahid Minar monument
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 140 x 91 mm.

A First Day Cover, dated 25 May 1991, cancelled at the Philatelic Bureau, Dhaka.
29 July 1992

Design: Tk. 1 single Postal Card – Red Shahid Minar monument
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 140 x 91 mm
Comments: The above listed Postal Card was printed with the logo and a slogan regarding the Banglapex 92 stamp Exhibition. The printing is in green and gray.

This is an offset of the stamp show promotion on the back of a card.
To promote the Bangladesh Stamp Exhibition – BANGLAPEX-92, a logo was printed in green and gray in the upper left corner with a line below it that reads, “Join athe National Philatelic Exhibition (In Bengali).
Two long cachets, applied in black to the above cards exist, one in Bengali and the other in English. They are found individually on cards and together, as well on envelopes. In English it reads, “Participate in the National Stamp Exhibition 1992” and is the same in Bengali.
Date of Issue Unknown

Design: Tk. 1 single Postal Card – Green Sheikh Mujibar
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 140 x 90 mm
Comments:

Errors, Freaks, and Oddities
Several Miscut Postal Cards for this issue. The scans were taken using different scanners and may account for the extreme differences in color.
This is allegedly a piece of card stock wtih nothing on it. At least two Paper varieties exist for this issue – different shades of yellow.
Date of Issue Unknown

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Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
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Date of Issue Unknown

Design: Tk. 1 single Postal Card – Red Shahid Minar monument
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 140 x 91 mm
Comment: A slogan has been added to the left side of the card that reads, “Giving and Taking of Dowery is a Punishable Offense”.

9 July 2007

Design: Tk. 2, single postal card – 100 Years of Scouting
Designer: Laksmon Sutro Dhor
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 150 x 95 mm
FDCs Known From: Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi.

An illustration of a mint and a First Day Cover of the Scout Postal Card. There are paper differences in this issue, but not quite a bright as the bottom scan. The bright color is because the scans were made on different scanners. Postal Card EFOs
The printed green image on the left of the card is privately printed and was not done by the Post Office. It is an almost identical image to the cancellation use on the first day of Phila Jamboree 201 (See Commemorative Postmarks for 2010).
A great misregistration of colors and a very rare item.
24 May 2008

Design: TK. 2.00 National Tree Plantation Campaigns 2008
Designer: Anawar Hosion
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 150 x 95 mm.

A mint copy and a First Day Cover of the Tree Plantation issue.
The back of each card has a stip of images of trees at the bottom of the card. This is the only instance of this design format on any of the postal cards.
A misalignment of the colors, creating a slight shift in the stamp image. This is not a double printing.
Only a portion of this postal card is illustrated as the light, double shifted printing does not show in a small illustation of the entire card.
A rare card missing the black address lines, etc.
6 February 2009

Design: Tk. 1.50 single Postal Card – Red Shahid Minar monument
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 140 x 90 mm
Comments: This card has a new value and the box at the bottom right is a different size.

Miscut red 1.50 P. Postal Card.
6 February 2009

Design: Tk. 1.50 single Postal Card – Green Sheikh Mujibar
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
Size: 140 x 90 mm
Comments: This card was issued the same day as the card listed above it.

16 July 1988 - Post Cards

In 1988 the Post Office Department printed three different “Eid Greeting Cards” that were given to the public. They did not have a printed postage image on them and the public had to buy stamps to afix to them if they sent them through the mail. In order to receive one free card, a person had to purchase a minimum of Tk.3 in stamps at the Post Office. The cards all have the Post Office logo printed on them.

Please note the dofferemce betweem Postal Cards and Post Cards (Postcards). Postal Cards have stamp images printed on them, or in some cases, stamps applied to them, and are generally sold at Post Offices to be used for sending messages in the mail. Post Cards do not have stamp images printed on them for postal use, and are generally not sold by/at post offices.

The top card has an image of the dome of a mosque, the crescent and a floral design, with “Eid Mubarak” in three languages.
The middle card is an image of the Tara, or Star Mosque, in Dhaka.
The bottom card is an image of the Saat Masjid, or Seven Dome Mosque, also in Dhaka.

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