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)
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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
N26
N13
Via China
N19
N55
N15
N25
N20, may also R35
N01
Bhutan solo franked covers - Domestic Destinations
N05
Piece of larger cover
N35
N37
N53
N08
Bhutan solo franked covers - International Destinations
N22
N21
N23
N32
N34
N39
N14
This is a single-franked cover - the Indian postal stationery was used only for convenience, not to prepay Indian onward postage.
N41
To Nepal
N51
To Bombay, southern India (beyond the Sikkim-Kalimpong local area where runners would operate.
N24
N52
Unaddressed Covers - Favor Cancels - Philatelic Inspired
N02
N04
N44
Not in Robinson List
N48
N45
N50
N49
N09
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
N46
Army canx w western date schema
N47
Army canx w western date schema
N58
N59
N12
Indigenous Cancellation Marks on Single Stamps
N33
N31
May possibly be tax "cancellations", not postal.
