Horses

Unified Vietnam, Horses, September 23rd, 1989, Michel Nr. 2094-2100; Seven stamps with nominals of 50D (three stamps), 100D (two stamps), 200D and 300D were issued in perforation 12.5:12.25 and imperforate. There are questions about there actual issuance date of these stamps. Klewitz report it to be September 15th, 1989 and Michel indicates that there are First Day Covers with that date.

Stamps sold at Vietnamese post offices were without gum while stamps sold by the official Vietnamese stamp agency were un-gummed.

Here is the mint perforated set

and here the mint imperforate set

Registered air mail letters ent in October of 1989 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries perforated Horses stamps plus stamps from the Paracel and Spratly Islands (imperforate), FINLANDIA Turtles, Helicopters, French Revolution I, Hydro Stations and Thanh Giong sets for an overall postage of 9,860D (including the red free frank for 5,240D). Imperforate stamps on postally used cover are very rare.

Registered air mail letters ent in October of 1989 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries perforated Horses stamps plus stamps from the Paracel and Spratly Islands (imperforate), FINLANDIA Turtles, Bicycles, French Revolution I, Off-shore Oil Production and Thanh Giong sets for an overall postage of 9,410D (including the red free frank for 6,580D). Imperforate stamps on postally used cover are very rare.

Registered air mail letters sent in November of 1989 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries perforated Horses stamps plus stamps from the Hydro Stations, Ceramics and Bicycle sets for an overall postage of 9,410D (including the red free frank for 4,880D). Fragment of the green Fulda custom cachet on front.

Registered air mail letters sent in November of 1989 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries perforated Horses stamps plus stamps from the Hydro Stations, Ceramics and Bicycle sets for an overall postage of 9,410D (including the red free frank for 5,590D). Fragment of the green Fulda custom cachet on front.

Registered air mail letters sent in November of 1989 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries imperforate Horses stamps plus stamps from the French Revolution II, Hydro Stations, Locomotives and Inoculation Campaign sets for an overall postage of 9,860D (including the red free frank for 6,630D). Imperforate stamps on postally used cover are very rare. Fragment of the green Fulda custom cachet on front.

Registered air mail letters sent in November of 1989 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries imperforate Horses stamps plus stamps from the French Revolution II, Hydro Stations, Bicycles and Ice Dancing sets for an overall postage of 10,260D (including the red free frank for 6,630D). Imperforate stamps on postally used cover are very rare. Fragment of the green Fulda custom cachet on front.

Registered air mail letter sent in February of 1990 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries perforated stamps from the Ink Drawing set plus stamps from the Horses and Inoculation Campaign sets for an overall postage of 6,900D (including the red free frank for 4,400D).

Registered air mail letter sent in February of 1990 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries perforated stamps from the Ink Drawing set plus stamps from the Horses set for an overall postage of 8,400D (including the red free frank for 4,650D).

Postally used letters with these stamps are very rare as the low nominal made postal use rather difficult. Unless one was using a free frank to add additional postage the low nominals would essentially demand too much space on a standard envelope. Here is a letter mailed in August of 1990 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz with half of the overprinted series plus stamps from the Old Sail Ships, Horses, Asia Games and Ministry for Post and Telecommunications its for an overall postage of 9,256.5D (including the red free frank for 5,250D).

Postally used letters with these stamps are very rare as the low nominal made postal use rather difficult. Unless one was using a free frank to add additional postage the low nominals would essentially demand too much space on a standard envelope. Here is a letter mailed in August of 1990 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz with half of the overprinted series plus stamps from the Old Sail Ships, Horses and Asia Games sets its for an overall postage of 8,801.8D (including the red free frank for 2,700D).

Postally used letters with these stamps are very rare as the low nominal made postal use rather difficult. Unless one was using a free frank to add additional postage the low nominals would essentially demand too much space on a standard envelope. Here is a letter mailed in August of 1990 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz with the other half of the overprinted series plus stamps from the Old Sail Ships, Horses and Asia Games sets its for an overall postage of 9,252.2D (including the red free franks for 3,450D).

Registered air mail letter sent in August, 1996 sent from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carried a pair of the Red Cross stamps plus stamps from the Medical Plant (imperforate) and Horse sets for an overall postage of 32,100D. Imperforate stamps on postally used cover are very rare.

Registered air mail letter sent in July of 1996 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries the UNICED set plus stamps from the Future for Children and Horse sets for an overall postage of 21,250D (including the red free frank for 1,000D).

Registered air mail letter sent in July of 1996 from Ho Chi Minh City to Klewitz. The letter carries the perforated Freight Airliners stamp set plus stamps from the overprinted Mushroom and Horse sets for an overall postage of 23,220D. The overprinted Mushroom stamps on postally used cover are very rare as their low nominal value made them redundant for most mailings.