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Bhutan Dzong Dak Mail System
Postal fiscal stamps used for postage on known covers
1955 - ca. 1988


Table of Contents (below)
     Dual Franked Covers (India)
     Dual Franked Covers (China)
     Single Franked Covers (Bhutan fiscals to domestic addresses)
     Single Frankfurt Covers (Bhutan fiscals to India and other international destinations)
     Philatelically inspired covers (unaddressed covers, favor cancels)

Other Pages in Postal History menu at left:
    
Surcharged fiscals on cover
     Robinson numbered covers
     "Modern" use of fiscals (in period during which runner system existed after establishment of civil mail system (Bhutan P&T) (1962 - ca 1988)
     Fakes
     
    

Dual franked covers  (Bhutan+India & Bhutan+China)


Via India

N16

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N26

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N13

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Via China

N19

Picture

N55

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N15

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N25

Picture

N20, may also R35

Picture

N01

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Bhutan solo franked covers - Domestic Destinations

N05

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Piece of larger cover

N35

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N37

Picture

N53

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N08

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Bhutan solo franked covers - International Destinations

N22

Picture

N21

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N23

Picture

N32

Picture

N34

Picture

N39

Picture

N14

Picture
This is a single-franked cover - the Indian postal stationery was used only for convenience, not to prepay Indian onward postage.

N41

Picture
To Nepal

N51

Picture
To Bombay, southern India (beyond the Sikkim-Kalimpong local area where runners would operate.

N24

Picture

N52

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Unaddressed Covers - Favor Cancels - Philatelic Inspired

N02

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N04

Picture

N44

Picture
Not in Robinson List

N48

Picture

N45

Picture

N50

Picture

N49

Picture

N09

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This cover was favor cancelled, and the person who requested the cancel stamped his address on the cover after receipt.  It never passed through the mail. 

N40

Picture

N46

Picture
Army canx w western date schema

N47

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Army canx w western date schema

N58

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N59

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N12

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Indigenous Cancellation Marks on Single Stamps

N33

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N31

Picture
May possibly be tax "cancellations", not postal. 

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