2nd Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of South Vietnam

National Liberation Front, 2nd Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of South Vietnam, June 6th, 1971, Michel Nr. NLF 39-43; Five stamps with nominals of 20xu, 30xu, 40xu, 50xu and 1 Dong (in NLF currency) were issued in perforation 11.0. The stamps were produced by Tien Bo Printing House in sheets of 50 stamps each.

Here is the mint set.

Mint blocks of four of the 20xu, 40xu and 50xu values.

Here is the cancelled to order set.

Since these stamps were never used there is no genuine postal history. Sometimes one can see letters that were favor cancelled after the end of the war or NLF stamps mixed in with North Vietnamese stamps also used after the war but they are basically philatelic documents that were simply made up to please collectors. NLF stamps were not permitted to be used in the North (mostly because the currency units were simply not compatible) so the mixed frankings one sees once in a while simply slipped through unrecognized or were obtained by bring the postal clerk.

Registration Nr. 200013