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Bangladesh Philatelic Literature

This listing is only of the items that I have had access to (original or photostat) and is not meant to be an exhaustive listing of the Philatelic Literature of Bangladesh.


Jain, Manik, Postal stationary of Bangladesh, Bangladesh, date of publicaion?, 18 pps, plus cover.

The booklet covers the provisional overprinted postal stationary of Pakistan, and includes the 1972 Mujib issues.
I am not familiar with this booklet and did not know of it's existence until 2014 when I saw it being sold on the internet.

Alam, Dr. Kazi Shariful, POSTAL STATIONERIES OF BANGLADESH. Twenty three pages. No further information available.

This small booklet is the only source I am aware of for the stationeries of Bangladesh. It ends with the year 1994. It is easy to read and shows the various items.


Bangladesh Post Office, BROCHURE ON BANGLADESH STAMPS, 1981, 40 pages. No further information

This small booklet has a photo of each stamp in black and white with the salient facts about them and a brief description of the subject. It ends with the Begum Roquiah stamps of 9 December 1980. Outdated, but interesting.


Bangladesh Post Office, POSTAGE STAMPS OF BANGLADESH 1971 - 2002, Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 100 pages plus hardcover and dust jacket.

This publication has the stamps illustrated in color, by year, but it is full of errors, both spelling and information. Never-the-less, it is the companion piece to the book they published later .

 


Bangladesh Post Office, POSTAGE STAMPS OF BANGLADESH 2002 - 2007, Postal Printing Press, Tejgaon, Dhaka, Bangladaesh, 2008, 84 pages, plus cover, hardcover.

This is the companion piece to the above book and is much more informative, beautifully laid out with every page full of illustrations and a nice addition to any collection. Price: Tk.400, US $12 (no other prices listed).


Drake, C.W., BANGLADESH POSTAGE STAMPS AND POSTAL STATIONERIES, Unpublished, 2001, Eighty three pages

The late Mr. Drake was an avid collector of Bangladesh material and had been working on a catalog. There are numerous bits of information that are helpful in understanding what was happening in the early days of the postal activities. There were no illustration with the loose pages of his manuscript and some of the information is not easy to understand


Khan, Ishtiaque Ahmed, THE METER FRANKING CANCELLATIONS OF BANGLADESH, Bangladesh Institute of Philatelic Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1996. Seventy eight pages, hardbound with dust jacket. ISBN 984-570-000-4

For those interested in Meter franking, this book is the authority on the subject


Kingshuk, & Bangladesh National Philatelic Association, BANGLADESH STAMP DIRECTORY, Editor Dr. Kazi Shariful Alam, Prime Art Press, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1988. Thirty two pages, soft cover.

This little book was quite useful when first released, but soon became outdated as new stamps were issued and more detailed information became available.


Lava, THE AIR POSTAL STATIONERY OF BANGLADESH, Not a publication, 20 pages (Cover, Description of types, 13 pages of listings and prices, 5 pages of illustrations. No further information available. Stapled pages.

This appears to be a listing of overprinted Pakistani Stationery that served as a price list for the Lava stamp company. They determined that there were 23 varieties of Pakistani Aerogrammes, 20 varieties of airmail envelopes and 10 varieties of airmail postal cards hand stamped during 1971/72. They simplified the hand stamps into 10 major types. While they most likely believed the material was genuine, time and research has shown that many of the listings are not genuine.


Rahman, Siddique Mahmudur, ROTARY MOVEMENT IN BANGLADESH, Bangladesh Institute of Philatelic Studies, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 1991. Eight pages, softbound

This publication is useful for the listing of the Rotary overprinted set of stamps from 1987 and the cancellations on the covers. The problem is that it does not state that many of these “errors” and varieties were created for the philatelic market, it only refers to them as “misprints”. Price: U.S. $3.00


Rahman, Siddique Mahmudur and Abdus Samad, ARTIST K.G. MUSTAFA AND HIS EXCEPTIONAL DESIGNS. Published by Theme-O-Graph, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2008, 72 pages plus cover. Softcover. ISBN 984-300-001644-9

A beautifully produced book full of color illustrations of his work as a designer of banknotes and stamps. Most of it deals with his stamp designs. Price: Tk.200, US $20, UK 10 pounds

Tornow, Wolfgang, BANGLADESH EINE PHILATELISTISCHE STUDIE, West Germany, 1973 Seventy eight pages. Monograph

This was the first piece of Bangladesh philatelic literature I purchased. It was a Photostat copy of the monograph and many of the illustrations were not clear. It is a monumental study, but very difficult to understand if you do not understand German. It deals with the Pakistani stamps that were overprinted and has illustrations of hundreds of different types of overprints. I have no opinion regarding its usefulness today as it is a field I do not collect due to the huge numbers of fakes created by Indian dealers..

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Khan, Parvez Ali Anwar, BANGLADESH HONORS THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION, American Philatelist, May 2002, pp. 434 - 436

This three page article in the American Philatelist journal is well illustrated with covers and cancellations.

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