1997 (34 Commemoratives)

18 Feb. - 50th Death Anniversary of Paul P. Harris

• A scarce essay for the Paul Harris stamp. Note that the gold on the Rotary emblem is shifted as well as the gold in the numbers at the top. The stamp was not issued with the gold in the numbers. Additionally, the light blue, that appears gray, in the Rotary emblem is shifted. It too, was not used in the issued stamp.

97-1 Tk.4 Portrait of Harris and Rotary emblem
     a. imperforate
     b. double gold printing of Rotary emblem
     c. blue shifted right
|     d. gold and blue shifted left and downward
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Md. Mozammel Hoque
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rajshahi (purple)
Insert: Off-white card stock, printed in black. Quantity of stamps printed not given.

Additional: Essay
Essay with gold numbers and light blue in Rotary emblem - both shifted to the right.

• The two different shifts in color(s) of the Rotary logo.

• This pair of Paul Harris Rotary stamps has a double impression of the gold in the Rotary emblem. Below the pair is a close-up of the error on the left and a normal impression on the right.

7 March - In Memory of Historic Speech of 7th March 1971

• Unusual used item with part of the red missing both vertically and horizontally. The red is also much lighter.

97-2 Tk.4 Sheik Rahman speaking before crowd
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 90
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative Postmark.
Pmks.: Barisal (purple), Chittagong, Dhaka, Kushtia, Pabna, Rajshahi, Rangpur (purple)
Insert: Bi-folded cream colored paper, printed in blue. Quantity of stamps printed not given.
 

17 March - 77th Birth Anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheik Mujibur Rahman

97-3 Tk.4 Portrait of Sheik Rahman
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Md. Mozammel Hoque
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Barisal (purple), Bogra, Dhaka, Kushtia, Rajshahi (purple)
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper printed in reddish-brown. Quantity of stamps printed not given.

26 March - Silver Jubilee of Independence

97-4 Tk.4 Sheik Rahman, crowd and flag
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 90
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Md. Matior Rahman
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Barisal (purple), Bogra, Dhaka, Kushtia, Rajshahi (purple)
Insert: Bi-folded white paper, printed in blue. Quantity of stamps printed not given.

Additional: Specimen for Approval Folder: One Type A folder - approved (signed).

8 April - Death Centenary of Heinrich von Stephan

97-5 Tk.4 Image of von Stephan
     a. imperforate
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Rajshahi
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper, printed in blue.
 

10 April - Livestock of Bangladesh

97-6 Tk.4 Goat
97-7 Tk.4 Sheep
97-8 Tk.6 Cattle
97-9 Tk.6 Buffalo
4 stamps

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain and Md. Shamsuzzoha
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka, Kushtia, Rajshahi (purple)
Insert: Trifolded cream colored paper, printed in blue.

Additional: Specimen for Approval Folder: Four Type A folders. One for each value - approved (each signed)
 

26 June - Paintings of Bangladesh (2nd Series)

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* Rejected images for the stamps.

97-10 Tk.6 Tilling the Fields 2 by S.M. Sultan
97-11 Tk.10 Three Women by Quamrul Hassan
2 stamps

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 90
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Paintings: Quamrul Hassan and S.M. Sultan
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Quadri-folded sheet of cream colored paper, printed in blue. Quantity of stamps printed not given.
 

4 Sep. - 6th ICC Trophy Champion Bangladesh 1997

• The above FDC has an additional stamp from St. Vincent affixed to it. St. Vincent evidently was one of the teams the Bangladesh team played.

97-12 Tk.10 Flag, soccer ball, trophy and emblem
1 stamp

CCM: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Anowar Hossain
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark. Covers exist with an additional cricket stamp of St. Vincent.
Pmks.: Chittagong, Dhaka
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper, printed in blue. Quantity of stamps printed not given.

Additional:
 

• Three cards showing members of the cricket team, with the stamp and FDC cancellation.

4 Sep. - Archaeological Relics of Bangladesh (Mosques)

• A privately produced First Day Cover for one of the stamps of the set. It is doubtful that FDCs were made for the other stamps in the set as this was most likely from a series of FDCs from many countires. In such series they usually only used one stamp from a set.

97-13 Tk.4 Kusumba Mosque, Naogaon
97-14 Tk.6 Atiya Mosque, Tangail
97-15 Tk.10 Bagha Mosque, Rajshahi
3 stamps

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 130
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Md. Mozammel Huq and Md. Shamsuzzoha
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper, printed in blue. Quantity of stamps printed not given.

Additional: Sheets have huge margins on one side - 3 1/8 to nearly 3 1/2 inches; 8 to nearly 9cm.
 

• The set can be found with huge margins as illustrated above. Note the CCMs in the margin.

11 Oct. - 126th Birth Anniversary of Abdul Karim Sahitya Visharad

97-16 Tk.4 Portrait of Visharad
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Md. Motior Rahman
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Barisol (purple) Variety of envelope, Dhaka
Insert: Tri-folded cream colored paper, printed in blue. Quantity of stamps printed not given.
 

25 Oct. - 9th Asia-Pacific/7th Bangladesh Rover Moot, 1997

97-17 Tk.2 Scouting stamp with scouts on top of globe with other images of scouts
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Unknown
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Barisol H.O. (purple), Dhaka, Lakkatura Golf Club P.O. (black, purple) - on site cancellation
Insert:
 

21 Nov. - Silver Jubilee of Armed Forces

• Due to a misfold the red text that should be on the back, is now on the bottom left front and is inverted.

97-18 Tk.2 Bangladesh flag above three men representing different forces
1 stamp

CCMs: Yes
Plate #: No
Sheet: 100
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: Jasim-uddin
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Bi-folded cream colored paper, printed in blue. Quantity of stamp printed not given.

14 Dec. - Shaheed Intellectuals (6th series - 2 sheets)

• Sheet 2 (97-27 - 97-34) missing the gold writing between the two black squares. Two copies of this major error are known.

Sheet 1
97-19 Tk.2 Gulam Hossain
97-20 Tk.2 Ali Karim
97-21 Tk.2 Md. Moazzem Hossain
97-22 Tk.2 Rafiqul Islam
4 labels
97-23 Tk.2 M. Nur Hussain
97-24 Tk.2 Captain Mahmood Hossain Akonda
97-25 Tk.2 Abdul Wahab Talukder
97-26 Tk.2 Dr. Hasimoy Hazra
     a. blind horizontal perforations on the right stamp of each row

Sheet 2
97-27 Tk.2 Dr. Shamsuddin Ahmed
97-28 Tk.2 Mohammad Salimullah
97-29 Tk.2 Mohiuddin Haider
97-30 Tk.2 Abdur Rahmin
4 labels
97-31 Tk.2 Nitya Nanda Paul
97-32 Tk.2 Abdul Jabber
97-33 Tk.2 Dr. Humayun Kabir
97-34 Tk.2 Khaja Nizamuddin Bhuiyan
     a. sheet is missing gold printing between the black squares around the sheet
16 stamps and 8 labels (Eight different stamps and four labels per sheet). Two horizontal rows of four different designs, one above the other, separated by a row of four labels

CCMs: No
Plate #: No
Sheets: 8 plus 4 labels (Stamps - Labels - stamps)
Quantity Printed: Unknown
Designer: (1) Anowar Hossain: Gulam Hossain, Rafiqul Islam, Mahmood Hossain Akonda, Nur Hussain, Khaja Nizamuddin Bhuiyan, Dr. Hasimoy Hazra, Mohiuddin Haider. (2) Motior Rahman: Abdul Wahab Talukder, Dr. Shamsuddin Ahmed, Mohammad Salimullah (3) Fazlur Rahman: Ali Karim, Moazzem Hossain. (4) Muslim Miah: Dr. ABM Humayun Kabir. (5) Mozzamel Hoque: ABM Abdur Rahim. (6) Jasimuddin: Nitya Nanda Paul.
Printer: The Security Printing Corp. (Bangladesh), Ltd., Gazipur
FDC: Yes. Commemorative postmark (A small circle with large spokes which made it possible to cancel the center label and yet cancel the stamps above, below and at the sides at the same time). A large cover (27.5 x 22cm., 10 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches). The entire sheet plus the borders are found on found on these two covers with the same cachet.
Pmks.: Dhaka
Insert: Booklet - 24 pages, plus covers. The booklets have been printed on two types of paper. One is whiter and a better quality. These were probably made for presentation to officials.

Additional: The margins of the sheets have a continuous line of gold colored writing with "Shaheed (Martyrd) Intellectual" and the year, in Bengali, outlined by two thick black bands. All stamps chestnut and black in color.

• Two original drawings for the miniature sheets. They are from different sheets and the modified images can be seen below in the sheets.

• FDCs only exist on the large sized envelopes. As in the 1991 issue, there is a second line of text on the back flap of the larger envelope.

• Sheet 1 (97-19 - 97-26)) with the perforations of the stamps on the right side of each row with blind horizontal perforations. They are very visible but do not break the paper. This is the only copy known.

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