2007 (15 Commemoratives, 1 withdrawn and 5 labels in a sheet)

8 March - International Women’s Day, 2007

07-1 Tk.10 Drawing of two women’s heads with red ribbon
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet:
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Mrinal Chakaborty
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rajshahi
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
 

7 April - World Health Day, 2007

• This pane of six proposed designs appears to have been cut from a larger sheet of similar designs for the World Health issue for 2007. There are no perforation on the stamps, just a drawn border looking like perforations.

07-2 Tk.6 Family members superimposed over bank
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet:
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Banderban, Barisal, Bogra, Comilla, Dhaka, Dhaka Sadar, Dinajpur, Faridpur, Jamalpur, Jessore, Moulvi Bazaar, Mymensingh, Narangonj, Noakhali, Pabna, Patuakhali, Rajshahi, Rangamati, Rangpur, Sirajganj, Sylhet, Tangail,.
Insert: Blue cardstock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Anowar Hossain
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
 

19 April - ICC World Cricket Cup, 2007

07-3 Tk.10 Cricket gear and team (vertical)
07-4 Tk.10 Trophy, player and tiger (horizontal)
07-5 Tk.10 Team members in front of trophy (vertical)
07-6 Tk.10 Player on left, trophy on right (horizontal)
4 se-tenant stamps in a block

CCMs:
Plate #:
Sheet: 100 (25 of each design)
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
Commemorative pmk.
Pmks.: Bandarban, Barisal, Bogra, Comilla, Dhaka, Dhaka Sardar, Dinajpur, Faridpur, Jamalpur, Jessore, Kushtia, Molvi Bazaar, Mymensingh, Narayanganj, Noakhali, Pabna, Patuakhali, Rangamati, Rangpur, Sirajganj, Sylhet, Tangail
Insert: Blue cardstock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6

Additional: Although all four designs are within one block, two of each design are vertical in design, and two are horizontal.
 

3 June – National Tree Plantation Campaign, 2007

07-7 TK.10 Two females in woods with insert of hut with trees
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rajshahi
Insert: Blue cardstock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Anowar Hossain
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge Tk.6
 

25 June – Habibullah Bahar Choudhury Birth Centenary

• A rare pane missing the black color on both sides and the top of the stamp. Note that the CCM for black is missing on the above pane. Above it is a normal pane. Also note that the black CCM is missing on the bottom pane, which would be normal because the black was not printed.

07-8 Tk.10 Portrait of Choudhury
     a. Missing black color
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rajshahi
Insert: blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
 

• The above two images are on photographic paper from the archives of the Postal Administration. The significance of the large and small images of the stamp is not known. There are no perforations but there is a drawn perforation-like image around each stamp. The image of the FDC was created before the cachet, stamp and cancellation were placed on sale. It was a in a sense, an essay of what the three elements would look like on a FDC.

• Another photographic image from the archives with two proposals for the cachetand the cancellation. Note that the bottom image has part of the stamp circled. Below is the actual First Day Cover that was approved and issued.

9 July – 100 Years of Scouting

07-9 Tk.10 Boy and girl scout
07-10 Tk.10 Portrait of Lord Baden-Powell
2 stamps - Se-tenant pair of stamps
a. imperforate pair of the two stamps

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100 (50 of each design)
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Lakashman Sutradhar
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rajshahi
Insert: Blue cardstock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Lakashman Sutradhar
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6

• Scarce imperforate pair of the two stamps.

• Although this states "FIRST DAY COVER" it is not a First Day Cover. It is a rare privately produced cover for a Boy Scout event during the year of the 100th Anniversary of Scouting. Illustrated are both the front and the reverse of the cover. In the upper illustration, in the left hand bottom, the multiple listing of dates are the attempted delivery dates of the cover.

29 July – 20 Years of Philatelic Association of Bangladesh (Overprint on the 15 July, 2000 Birds of Bangladesh stamp 00-22)

07-11 Tk.4 Black overprint on bird stamp
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk. Envelope design Syeed Bin Salam (Tuhin).
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Shiney white cardstock, printed in green.
Cachet Designer: Syeed Bin Salam (Tuhin)
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
 

29 Aug. - Dr, Md, Yunus & Grameen Bank Awarded Nobel Prize, ‘06

07-1wi Tk.10 Dr Yunus and Nobel Prize Medal (Stamp and cachet on envelope portrays wrong medal.)
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown. It is believed about 10 sheets were sold before being withdrawn
Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmrk. See following entry.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6

Additional: The stamp was withdrawn within hours of issuance as it was realized the wrong medal was illustrated on the stamp and the government prepared FDC envelope. The stamp and envelope were reprinted with the correct medal. See below for the reissue.
Withdrawn on September 2nd. August 30th, 31st and Sept. 1st were government holidays.
 

• An uncut and unfolded envelope of the unissued stamp, showing the wrong medal in the cachet.

29 Aug. – Dr. Md. Yunus & Grameen Bank Awarded Nobel Prize, ’06 (Corrected stamp)

07-12 Tk.10 Dr Yunus and Nobel Prize Medal
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknwon
Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk.. See preceeding entry.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Blue card stock, printed in red.
Cachet Designer: Mrinal Chakraborty
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6

Additional: This corrected stamp and envelope was actually issued September 9th, but the same cancelling device was used with the original date of issue. The stamp is much darker in color than the previous one. Note that the writing on the bottom right is different from that of the original error stamp and envelope. Also, the correct medal is now portrayed on the stamp and envelope.
 

14 Sept. - Not valid for postage - "In Charity of Flood Victims” sheetlet: Bangladesh Post Office"

• Miscut sheet with wrong label removed.

07-L0 Removed label of  Medical staff
07-L1 Tk.2 Children standing in water
07-L2 Tk.2 People with animals on raft
07-L3 Tk.2 People on roof of building
07-L4 Tk.2 Women lined up in water
07-L5 Tk.2 Collage of various images of people and buildings
07-1ssL SS of labels
1 SS of five labels – perforated

CCMs: N/A
Plate #: N/A
No of labels in each sheet: 5 (originally 6)
Quantity of sheets printed: Unknown
Designer:
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark, but not a valid postage issue and not a valid FDC. General P.O. cancellation. A very well done privately printed envelope that looks like a government issue item but it does not have the P.O. logo on the back flap. Designed by Syeed Bin Salam (Tuhin). The covers have the sheet, minus the one label. Later, others prepared a handful of complete sheets on envelopes and had them sent as registered letters. Both must be considered "philatelic" in nature and are considered invalid by the postal authorities.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: None

Additional: A handful of full sheets found their way to the philatelic market. The missing label portrays a government figure and other people. It is difficult understanding what they are doing.
There was much confusion regarding this P.O. issued charity sheet of six labels. It was not valid for postage, but some were used as such. The P.O. had to print small flyers picturing the sheet with the removed label and stating that it was not valid for postage, but a means of raising money for flood victims, and that the sheet was issued minus one of the labels. The label in the upper left corner had been removed by the authorities before the sheet was put on sale.
 

• This is a rare copy of an intact sheet as it would appear before the one label was removed and sold.

• This is the cancellation used on the few covers that were prepared. It was not made available to the public.

• This is tha similar cover as that illustrated directly below it. The image is not the true colors as this is a copy of a photostat that did not portray the true colors. This is a rare cover and it is believed only 200 exist. This was the only use of the commemorative cancellation.

• Another philatelic covers using the complete sheet on the cover. The labels were not considered postage stamps but often were used as such. This cover is cancelled in 2008.

• This is a very well done privately produced envelope for this sheet of labels. The labels were not valid for postage and no official FDC was created for it. The sheets were made by the Post Office to sell to raise money for the victims of flooding in Bangladesh. This cover is cancelled with a regular P.O. cancellation on 15 September, the day after the issue of the labels. This cachet was designed by Syeed Bin Salam (Tuhin).

• Above is the flyer that was printed to explain the Charity stamps. It does not directly say they were not to be used for postage, therefore the term "Charity Stamp" must imply that it is not a postage stamp. They were not valid for postage, even though there are instances where people used them and they were sent through the mails. Even more confusing is the fact that a cancellation was approved for a FDC (?) of the labels. The size is about 8 1/2 x 5 3/4ins. (21 1/2 x 14 1/2cms.). This explanation was found on the internet and copied.

15 Sept. – ICC World Twenty, 2007

07-13 Tk.4 Player with South Africa map in background
07-14 Tk.4 Five players
2 se-tenant stamps

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet:
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Syeed Bin Salam
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk. Original covers discovered with misspelling in Bengali. The envelope was reprinted and released with the correct spelling. A few error covers are known with a Dhaka cancelation.
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

Additional. The same stamps were reissued  on the 24th of September due to a misprinting of the cachet on the envelope.

24 Sept. – ICC World Twenty, 2007

07-13 Tk.4 Player with South Africa map in background
     a. major misperforation
07-14 Tk.4 Five player
     a. major misperforation
2 stamps - se-tenant pair of stamps
a. imperforate pair of the two stamps
b. imperforate block of four of the stamps

CCMs:
Plate #:
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Syeed Bin Salam
Printer: Security Printing Corp., Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk. Envelope design by Aminul Haque Malick
Pmks.: Chittagong, Dhaka
Insert:

Additional: The cachet for the FDCs was found to have an error in it and was later corrected. See below for comparison of the two cachets. The error was corrected, and covers from Dhaka with both cachets can be found. The stamps alternate in the sheet and if one has a block of four of the two stamps the same stamp will not be above the same image.

• Scarce imperforate block of two pairs. Note that the stamps alternate in the sheet and the same image is not above a similar image.

• This is the incorrect cachet that was later corrected.

• This is the corrected cachet that is the more common of the two envelopes.

• Rare sheet with proposed designs for the stamps, the cancellation, and the envelope.
   

18 Dec. – International Migrant’s Day, 2007

07-15 Tk.10 Logo image with globe and crescent
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity printed: Unknown
Designer: Jashim Uddin
Printer: The Security Printing Corp., (BD), Ltd., Gazipur Bangladesh
FDC: Yes. Commemorative pmk. Envelope design by Anowar Hossain.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Tri-folded white paper, printed in blue.
Cachet Designer: Anowar Hossain
Cachet Printer: Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon-Dhaka
Stationary Charge: Tk.6
 

• Rejected design for this issue.

• The above cover is missing the red color.

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