1992 (24 Commemoratives, including 1 SS. 1 Definitive, 4 SERVICE overprints and 1 Unissued)

8 Feb. - Shaheed Mirza Abu Raihan Jaglu

92-1 Tk.2 Drawing of Jaglu being carried in crowd scene and his portrait
1 stamp

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 300,000*
Designer: Md. Moniruzzaman
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark. Like other stamps and covers honoring local heroes there is no English to explain who the person is. Only "FIRST DAY COVER" in English.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert:

Additional: This is the quantity verbally given to Mosharaf Husein by a government official.

5 June - World Environment Day

• Rejected designs for the World Environment Day stamp of 1992.

92-2 Tk.4 Scenes of environment with trees, people and industry
92-3 Tk.10 Earth in a circle with a small UN emblem and a UNEF emblem on each side
     a. slight upward shift in green giving blurry image in center
2 stamps

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 500,000 each value
Designer: Ahmed Fazlul Karim (Tk.10) and K. G. Mustafa (Tk.4)
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark. Two sizes of envelopes exist. The cachets are the same but the issued cachet is on the larger envelope and is much larger, nearly reaching the top and bottom of the envelope.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: White card stock, printed in black.
 

 

• The middle and bottom cachet was not the approved design due to it's size and the placement, and size of some of the wording. Additionally, there is a stamped slogan (In the rectangular box) on the bottom illustration, regarding taking care of the environment. Over the years numerous slogans were applied to envelopes by the P.O. but no one appears to have a list of them and they remain largely unknown to collectors. The top cover was the approved design.

2 July - 235th Death Anniversary of Nawab Sirajuddaula

• The stamp on the right is missing the name of the country at the bottom of the stamp.

92-4 Tk.10 Drawing of Sirajuddaula
     a. missing green "BANGLADESH" at bottom of stamp
     b. shifting of colors|
1 stamp

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 500,000
Designer: K.G. Mustafa
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Chittagong, Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple)
Insert: White card stock, printed in black.

Additional: The stamp is known with the blue Bangladesh in Bangla and English missing.

• This is a spectacular misregistration of the inks. It is not an error, but an oddity.

 

• The top cover is a FDC from Dhaka that is printed on newsprint and is a darker brown in color. No one seems to know the explanation for this and no others have been reported. Below it is a regular First Day Cover.

15 July - Definitives

Security Printing Corporation, Bangladesh Definitives

17 July - Syed Ismail Hossain Sirajee

92-5 Tk.4 Portrait of Sirajee
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 300,000
Designer: Mahbub Akand
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Chapai-Nawabganj, Rangpur
Insert: Bi-folded shiny white paper, printed in brown. The insert is in Bengali with the exception of the section in English for the salient features of the stamp.

19 July - Plant Week

92-6 Tk.2 Couple planting tree
     a. Shade difference - purple background and orange dress on woman, rather than yellow
92-7 Tk.4 Hand holding tree, trees and dove
2 stamps

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 500,000 of each variety
Designer: Mozammel Huq and Md. Moniruzzaman
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: White card stock, printed in black.

25 July - Olympic Games, Barcelona, ‘92

92-8 Tk.4 Rowing
92-9 Tk.6 Hands holding Olympic torch
92-10 Tk.10 Doves of peace
92-11 Tk.10 Clasped hands
4 stamps in a se-tenant block

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100 (25 sets of blocks)
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Mahbub Akand, Muslim Mia and Sudhir Datta
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Bogra, Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple)
Insert: White card stock printed in black.

 

• The top illustration with the white envelope is the issued FDC. The two envelopes below it were not used. Note that not only are they a pinkish color, but the line of text above the image is larger.

27 July - SERVICE overprint

Security Printing Corporation Printing

18 Aug. - Bangladesh National Philatelic Exhibition, BANGLAPEX - 92 (Overprint on the Tk.10 value of the 24 October, 1987 Transports of Bangladesh)

• The stamp on the left is normal. The center stamp has the space between the Bengali 9 and 2 of 92 and the right stamp has the overprint shifted up.

92-12 Tk.10 Black overprint on stamp with an image of an ox cart
     a. space between the Bengali "9" and "2" of ovpt.
     b. ovpt. shifted up near top of stamp
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 50
Quantity Overprinted: 40,000
Designer: Pranesh Kumar Mandal
Printer: Mezhdunarodnaya, Kniga, U.S.S.R.
Printer of overprint: Postal Printing Press Tongi, Dhaka
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Jessore (purple), Narsingdi (purple)
Insert: White card stock, printed in black.

Additional: The overprint is shifted in several sheets. It is found partially on BANGLADESH at the top and shifted down over the driver of the cart.

• Cover missing the red writing above and below the image. There is no Post Office logo on the back flap of the envelope due to the missing red color.

15 Sep. - Masnad-E-Ala Isa Khan

92-13 Tk.4 Painting of Isa Khan
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 500,000
Designer: Md. Mozammel Hoque
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Narsingdi (green)
Insert: Bi-folded shiny white paper printed in black. The front of the insert has an image in color of Masnad-e-Ala Isa Khan. Only the salient features of the stamp are in English, the rest is in Bangla. The sheet contains an error that was corrected by hand on some copies. It listed the quantity of stamps in each sheet as 100, when the actual number was 80.
 

16 Sept - SERVICE overprint

Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga Printing

26 Sep. - Bangladesh National Philatelic Exhibition, BANGLAPEX, ‘92

92-14 Tk.10 Ivory carving of an elephant and mahout
label of mail runner with text
92-15 Tk.10 Post rider, red mail box and postman delivering mail
2 stamps and 1 label in se-tenant strip of three

92-1ss Tk.25 Imperforate souvenir sheet containing the stamps and label

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 60
Quantity of Stamps Printed: 500,000 of each design
Designer: Mahmuda Begum
Quantity of SSs Printed: 25,000
Designer of SS: Mahbub Akand
Printer of stamps and SS: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark. Very large and awkward cover. (27.8 x 17.2 cm, 10 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches) Designed for the stamp set and the souvenir sheet on one cover.
Pmks. - Stamps: Banglapex P.O. - on site cancellation., Dhaka
Pmks. - SSs: Banglapex P.O. - on site cancellation, Dhaka
Pmks. - both on one cover:
Insert: Large cream colored card stock, printed in black.

29 Oct. - Star Mosque, Dhaka

92-16 Tk.10 Exterior image of mosque
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 80
Quantity Printed: 500,000
Designer: Md. Jasimuddin
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Bogra, Chittagong, Dhaka
Insert - three types have been reported : 1) Light tan card stock printed in black; 2) Shiny bi-folded paper printed in black with color image of mosque on the front; 3) ?.

19 Nov. - Meer Nisar Ali Titumeer (1782-1831)

Rejected design for Titumeer stamp. The accepted design is much more attractive.

92-17 Tk.10 Image of Nisar Ali Titumeer
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 80
Quantity Printed: 800,000
Designer: Mahbub Akand
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple)
Insert: Bi-folded shiny white paper, printed in blue. Cover has bi-colored image in blue and reddish-brown. The insert is in Bengali with the exception of the English section of the salient features of the stamp.

22 Nov. - SERVICE overprint

Security Printing Corporation Printing

30 Nov. - Archaeological Relics from Mahasthan Garh

92-18 Tk.10 Terracotta seal and terracotta head - yellow background and multicolored
92-19 Tk.10 Terracotta hamsa (Duck image and flowers) - shades of brown
92-20 Tk.10 Continuous background for this stamp and #92-22- terracotta statue
92-21 Tk.10 Continuous background for this stamp and #92-21 - two stone columns
4 stamps - horizontal strip of four se-tenant stamps

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheet: 20 (5 sets of four different designs)
Quantity Printed: 500,000 of each value (design)
Designer: Mahbub Akand, Mahmuda Begum and Muslim Mia
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark. Very large cover (27 x 12.8cm., 10 5/8 x 5 inches.)
Pmks.: Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple)
Insert: Large shiney white bi-folded paper printed in black with a picture on the front printed in orange tones and black.

• Misperfortion of strip from the sheet. Only one sheet known, which means there are five individual strips, if the remainder of the sheet was broken up.

5 Dec. - International Conference on Nutrition, Rome, 1992

92-22 Tk.4 Small child and fresh food items
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 800,000
Designer: Md. Moniruzzaman
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Chuadanga (purple), Dhaka, Narsingdi (purple)
Insert:

• Rare First Day Cover from Chuadanga H.O. a post office that no longer receives a cancellor for FDCs.

5 Dec. - 7th South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation Summit Conference (SAARC), Dhaka

92-23 Tk.6 Flags of members in within a design
92-24 Tk.10 Emblem in center with colors around it
2 stamps

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: 600,000 of each value
Designer: Tk.10.00 Mahbub Akand / Tk.6.00 Md. Nurul Islam ?
Printer: Bangladesh Security Printing Press, Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert:
 

Unissued Freedom Fighters of Palestine

92-1un 50p Dome of the Rock Mosque and Palestinian fighter with gun
1 stamp

CCMs: None
Plate #: None
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Mahbub Akand
Printer: Mezhdunarodnava Kniga, USSR
FDC: See "Additional" for information
Pmks.: None
Insert: None- not issued.

Additional: This stamp is listed in 1992 as that is the date of the first known use of the stamp on a cover.
Many rumors are repeated about this issue and the truth will probably never be known. The stamp was created to raise money for the Palestinian people, but not for terrorism. The Arabic word "mukatelin, which means"terrorist", was printed on the stamp, rather than the word "mujahedin", meaning "warrior". The mistake was noticed by the Islamic Foundation, a government organization, after the stamps arrived from the Russian printer.
A proof exists on a card, with reverse bearing the signature Major (Rtd) A. M. Chowdhury, Director Mails, B P O, dated 3 November 1987 and has the official rubber stamped seal. What is interesting is that the date is 1987. The original artist's drawing also exists.
At an undetermined date later, when the stamps were sent from the printer in Russia to the port in Chittagong, one of the packets of stamps was not accounted for. It has been said that the crate was opened and the packet missing. Another version is that the packet may have been misplaced and/or sent to the Comilla P.O. later.
The Government investigated the situation and allegedy gave two single copies of the stamp to a dealer in Dhaka for identification purposes. Later these were allegedly sold.
In 1990-91 the stamps were mistakingly sold at the post offices in the Comilla region and were genuinelly used for postage. Once aware of this, some collectors obtained some of the stamps and used them on "Philatelic" covers.
To date, the earliest known use of the stamp is on a philatelic cover dated 30 September 1992, on a BANGLAPEX '92, SPECIAL COVER, with two of the Palestine stamps on it and cancelled at Dhaka, and the earliest known genuine use for postage purposes only, is 27 September 1992 , postmarked Comilla H.O.. At least five covers are known from post offices under the Barishal P.O. from November 1992. It seems more likely that if they were mistakingly sold at the Comilla post offices, the date was probably closer to the end of 1992, rather than 1990-91.
Thus, the possibility that the stamps were not really stolen needs to be considered.
On the other hand, sheets of the unissued stamps were fairly common in India. It seems logical that the packet could have been stolen at the port and many of the stamps sold to dealers outside the country. But again, many Bangladesh stamps are sold to Indian dealers near the Bangladesh/India border. These dealers are largely responsible for many of the non-Dacca (later Dhaka) cancelled First Day Covers that exist from that period.
The dealers in Bangladesh are now finding that this stamp is no longer readily available and those few sheets that are found are not in the best of condition.

• Privately produced for the Palestinian stamp that was not officially issued. All cachets for FDCs covers are printed and produced by the Bangladesh Post Office. Since this stamp was not issued (For a variety of reasons), this cachet was privately produced. Quite a few of the stamps were stolen prior to the scheduled release and made their way to the philatelic market.This is a very rare cover and is fairly large in size - approximately 5 1/2 inches x 8 inches. The actual size has been reduced above. These covers are sold as FDCs, but in fact they are not. Most of them have different dates in the cancellations. This cover is dated 15 September, 1993. The earliest known date of use, to date, of this stamp was on a philatelic cover dated 1 November, 1992. Covers exist with the cachet and figures hand colored.

• A registered commercial use cover with a pair of the Palestine stamps, cancelled at Ghalkhati P.O. (Under the supervision of Barishal District), dated 9 November 1992. This is a rare cover with such an early use (1992) from Barishal District, plus, it is not a "philatelic cover".

 

• The above is a scarce folder prepared by the PostBangladesh Post Office, describing the issues of 1990. You will that there are no photos of the stamps from September - December, but they are listed on the final two pages.

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