Reconstruction after the Destruction of the TET Offensive

South Vietnam, Reconstruction after the Destruction of the TET Offensive, September 15th, 1970, Michel Nr. SVN 455-456; Two stamps in nominals of 8D and 16D (Q:3,000,000 sets) were issued in perforation 13.5.

Here is the mint set.

and here the postally used set.

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.

Enpreuves de Luxe; printed on thin cardboard paper.

Single franking of the 8D value on a domestic air mail letter sent from Saigon to Nha Trang in February of 1971.

Single franking of the 8D value on a large envelope printed matter mailing from the Vietnam Council on Foreign Relations (an international think tank7lobbying organization) to a press editor in the United States sent in December of 1970.

Multiple franking of the 8D value (2) paying an overall postage of 16D on a domestic registered official letter sent within Saigon in November 1971.

Mixed franking of the 8D Reconstruction after the Destruction of the TET Offensive stamp plus the 2D Civil Self Defense stamps paying an overall postage of 10D on a domestic letter (full contents preserved) sent from Dalat to Hue in March of 1973.

Mixed franking of the 8D Reconstruction after the Destruction of the TET Offensive stamps (5) plus stamps from the National Unity and Fishery sets paying an overall postage of 144D on a registered air mail letter sent from Saigon to West Germany in April of 1972.

Mixed franking of the Reconstruction after the Destruction of the TET Offensive set plus a pair of Asian Productivity Year stamp paying an overall postage of 68D on a rare international registered express air mail letter sent from Con Son to West Germany in February of 1971. Saigon machine transit and Frankfurt arrival cancel on the reverse.

Mixed franking of the 16D TET-Offensive (3) and 2D Postal Rider stamps paying an overall postage of 52D on an international letter sent to the United States in January of 1972.

Mixed ranking of the 16D value (4) together with stamps from the Fruit and Craft sets paying an overall postage of 72D on an international air mail letter sent in April of 1971 by a member of the military (Coastal Group 26) to a company in the United States.

Single franking of the 16D value on a domestic registered mailing of a municipal receipt sent to a recipient in Pham The Tien in September of 1972.

Multiple franking of the 16D value (2) paying an overall postage of 32D on an international air mail letter sent from Saigon to Sweden in March of 1971.

Multiple franking of the 16D value (4) paying an overall postage of 64D on an international air mail letter sent from Saigon to Switzerland in February of 1971.