South Vietnam, New Year, January 26th, 1975, Michel Nr. SVN 584-586; Three stamps in nominals of 20D (Q:4,000,000), 30D (Q:2,000,000) and 100D (Q:1,000,000)  were issued in perforation 14:13.75. Printing quantities, according to the official stamp bulletin, were 4,000,000, 3,000,000 and 1,000,000.

Here is the mint set.

Postally used 100D stamp.

A few of the prepared but not issued stamps were left imperforate and sold this way after the war. Here is the set of these imperforate trial proofs.

Enpreuve de Luxe; printed on cardboard paper.

Mixed franking of the 30D New Year stamp together with the 100D Wounded Soldier stamp paying an overall postage of 130D on an international air mail letter sent from Saigon to France in February of 1975.

Below is the fabled cover (ex Klewitz) that carries to postal used samples of the 10D Nguyen Van Thieu stamps (the only one known to carry two postally used copies of these stamps) and stamps from the Traditional Vietnamese Theater, Victory at Quang Tri, New Year, Cultural Places, National Development Conference sets plus the various overprinted stamps for an overall postage of 752D on a very rare registered express mail letter sent from Saigon to West Germany in March of 1975. Red Fulda Post Office arrival cachet on front.

Mixed franking of the 100D New Year, 30D Historical Sites and 100D Wounded Soldier stamps paying an overall postage of 230D on an international air mail letter sent from Saigon two France in February of 1975.

Registration Nr.201500

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