Bradbury Definitives

• Note that there is a small red "x" on the left of the 3p value in the upper left corner and there are three different colors for the 25p tiger stamp, titled "a, b and c." The center color, "b" was the color chosen for the stamp. With the exception of the two different tiger colors, all of the stamps shown were issued in those colors.

• A scarce color essay of the 2p design, that was eventually issued in black.

The Tk.1, Tk.2, Tk.5, and Tk.10 were reprinted with the Taka being changed to Bengali, rather than Enlish, which was the first printing. The Bradbury printed stamps are all larger in size than the Asher stamps that were printed several years later. The same designs were used for both the Bradbury and the later Asher printed stamps.

Color Control Marks: No
Plate Number: No
Imperforate: Yes Not officially issued, but twenty sheets were sent to the Dacca P.O. and sold.
No. of stamps in each sheet: 100
Quantity of stamps printed: Unknown
Designer: P.K.Mondal, K.G. Mustafa, Golam Sarwar and Emdad Hossain
Printer: Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co, Ltd., UK
FDC: Unofficial
Pmks.: Chittagong, Dacca Sadar H.O., Dacca Sadar Night P.O., Engineering University/Dacca, Peelkhana, Philatelic Bureau/Dacca
Insert: None

Additional: The Tk.1, Tk.2, Tk.5 and Tk.10 values were later redrawn with the "Ta" expressed in Bangla, rather than English. See beginning of 1974 for the Tk.1 (74-1d) and Tk.2 (74-2d) and the beginning of 1975 for the Tk.5 (75-1d) and Tk.10 (75-2d) redrawn stamps.

An imperforate maroun essay of the 50p Hilsa fish exists and an orangish-red essay of the Sixty Dome Mosque.

A privately prepared cachet exists for this issue as well. There are three different colored cachets; gold, silver, and black, with an outline map of Bangladesh with the rivers indicated and "Dacca". There are two Bangla words at the top above the map. Below it, in English, is "First Day Cover/Second Definitive Series/Postage Stamps/(30-4-1973)". cachet in three different colors were made by Mr. M.A. Salam, the famous Dhaka collector/dealer.
Commercial covers exist on this date from Chittigong with “(BANGLADESH) FIRST DAY OF ISSUE (Bangla word in parenthesis)/SECOND DEFINITIVE SERIES” stamped in red ink on the front of the envelopes, even when there are no stamps on the front, only on the back. It was not stamped on the back. The red stamp used to imprint envelopes appears to have been created by the P.O.. The set is not found on one cover and the cancellation is a general Post Office cancellation.

Numerous misperforation varieties can be found in most of the Definitive sets of Bangladesh.
 

Bradbury First Day Covers

30 April 1973

73-1d 2p Embroidered quilt - black

a. imperforate

73-2d 3p Jute field - bright green

a. imperforate

73-3d 5p Jack fruit - light brown

a. imperforate

73-4d 10p Plowing field - black

a. imperforate

73-5d 20p Hibiscus flower - olive

a. imperforate

73-6d 25p Tiger - rose-lilac

a. imperforate

73-7d 50p Fish (Hilsa) - rose-lilac

a. imperforate

73-8d 60p Bamboo grove - gray

a. imperforate

73-9d 75p Women picking tea - orange

a. imperforate

73-10d 90p Handicrafts - red-brown

a. imperforate

73-11d Tk.1 Court of Justice - violet

a. imperforate

73-12d Tk.2 Man climbing palm tree - gray-green

a. imperforate

73-13d Tk.5 Net fishing - light blue

a. imperforate

73-14d Tk.10 Sixty-Dome Mosque - rose

a. imperforate

14 Stamps

 

? 1974

• Tk.1 Court of Justice - violet

• Tk.2 Man Climbing Palm Tree - gray-green

(?) 1975 - Redrawn High Values

Additional: The values were expressed in Bengali, rather than English

75-1d Tk.5 Net fishing - light-blue

75-2d Tk.10 Sixty Dome Mosque - rose

2 stamps

Asher Definitives

Bradbury SERVICE Overprints

Definitives

SERVICE Overprinted Stamps

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