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Since the first 1971 issue, the Bangladeshi postal authorities have maintained a conservative issuing policy. Just over 900 individual stamps and miniature sheets were listed in the regular
Encyclopaedia of Postal Authorities
Bangladesh Post Office
Siddique Mahmudur Rahman, ''History of Postal Service and Postage Stamps of Bangladesh,'' TrulyBangladesh.com (13 October 2009)
THE FIRST STAMPS OF BANGLADESH
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
first issued its own postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...
s upon gaining independence in 1971. A set of eight stamps, with various motifs including a map of the country, were issued. Shortly after, stamps in eight values were overprinted "Bangladesh Liberated" in both English and Bengali were prepared in the United Kingdom, but only three values were issued in Bangladesh.
Overprints
While the initial stamps were being produced, local postmasters were authorised to overprint the Pakistani stamps that they had in stock with the name of their new country. This practice led to a large number of varieties, not catalogued in the major stamp catalogues. These issues ceased to be valid in 1973.First stamps
The first stamps of the country were issued inrupees
Rupee is the common name for the currencies of
India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee), British East Africa, B ...
(1 rupee = 100 paisa) on 29 July 1971, but in 1972 a new currency was introduced (1 taka
The Bangladeshi taka ( bn, টাকা, sign: , code: BDT, short form: Tk) is the currency of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. In Unicode, it is encoded at .
Issuance of bank notes 10 and larger is controlled by Bangladesh Bank, whil ...
= 100 poisha) and since then all stamps have been inscribed with taka or poisha values.
Issuing policy
Since the first 1971 issue, the Bangladeshi postal authorities have maintained a conservative issuing policy. Just over 900 individual stamps and miniature sheets were listed in the regular Stanley Gibbons
The Stanley Gibbons Group plc is a company quoted on the London Stock Exchange specialising in the retailing of collectable postage stamps and similar products. The group is incorporated in London. The company is a major stamp dealer and philat ...
catalogues by 2008, plus approximately 50 issues overprinted "Official" for Governmental use. No stamp booklets have yet been produced.
The majority of themes featured on Bangladeshi stamps have been locally based; these are interspersed with occasional general thematic issues (e.g. fish, birds, etc.) and those for worldwide events (e.g. Olympic Games, football and cricket World Cups, etc.)
See also
*Bangladesh National Philatelic Association The Bangladesh National Philatelic Association is a non-profit philatelic organisation in Bangladesh established in 1978. It has over one thousand members and is run by an executive panel of twelve members. It has issued more than one hundred philat ...
*Revenue stamps of Bangladesh Bangladesh first issued revenue stamps in 1972, the year after independence, and continues to do so to this day. Previously there was no country named Bangladesh and it was part of India (till 1947) and part of Pakistan (from 1947 to 1971) and respe ...
*Bangladesh Institute of Philatelic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of Philatelic Studies is a research institution in Bangladesh that researches postage stamps
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to cus ...
Further reading
* Ishtique Ahmed Khan, ''The Meter Franking Cancellations of Bangladesh''. Dhaka: Bangladesh Institute of Philatelic Studies, 1996.References and sources
;References ;Sources *Stanley Gibbons
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Ltd: various catalogues
Encyclopaedia of Postal Authorities
External links
Bangladesh Post Office
Siddique Mahmudur Rahman, ''History of Postal Service and Postage Stamps of Bangladesh,'' TrulyBangladesh.com (13 October 2009)
THE FIRST STAMPS OF BANGLADESH
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
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