North Vietnam, 150. Birthday of Karl Marx, May 19th, 1968, Michel Nr. 533; Karl Marx was a leading intellectual that had a great hand in developing the communist philosophy and hence was venerated in North Vietnam. A single stamp with a 12 xu nominal and in perforation 11.0 was issued.

Here is the mint stamp.

Rare registered express mail letter sent to Klewitz in April of 1969 featuring one of the 12 xu stamps plus im-perforated issues of the 1962 Flowers and Folk Dance series. Im-perforated stamps on postally used cover are very rare. The overall franking amounted to 1.72 which was slightly in excess of the required postage of 1.60 Dong. Interesting Hannover-Frankfurt train transit cancel and Fulda arrival cancel on the reverse.

Registration Nr. 101580

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