Women Movement

North Vietnam, Women Movement, June 1st, 1974, Michel Nr. 761-762; Two stamps both with a 12 xu nominal were issued in perforation 11.0. The two stamps were produced together in the same sheet.

Here is the mint set.

Below is a mint strip of eight stamps that shows how they were arranged within the sheet:

Please note that when the various cliches for the sheet were produced the numeral “1974” at the bottom right of each stamp were not uniform in nature. The results in some stamps having a larger and fat “1974” while others only show thinly printed small “1974”.

Small 1974

Large 1974

Rare local letter using a single franking if one of he 12xu stamps on a letter from Vinh to Viet Tri. Sent in October of 1974.

Rare express mail letter sent to Klewitz in October of 1974. The letter features the entire set. The overall postage amounted to 1.64 Dong which appears to be in excess of the required postage of 1.00 Dong

Mixed franking of the entire Textile Plant and Women Movement sets on a philatelic air-mail letter sen to Hong Kong.

Mixed franking of the Dien Bien Phu set together with the Women Movement and Liberation of Hanoi sets paying an overall postage of 72 xu on a domestic letter sent from Quan 5 to Him City in July of 1981.

Mixed franking of the 12xu Women Movement and 40xu Downed Aircraft stamps paying an overall postage of 52xu on an international letter sent from Hanoi to East Germany in July of 1974.

Very rare express mail letter sent to Klewitz in May of 1976. It carries the other half of the im-perforated butterfly set plus the perforated woman movement stamp set on the reverse. Im-perforated stamps on postally used cover are very rare. The overall postage amounted to 2.46 Dong which appears to be in excess of the required tariff (1.50 Dong) for a standard 20 gram express mail letter to West Germany. Fulda arrival cancel on the reverse.