Lot 1678

TAMANAN. Envelope bearing 2½ cent Dancer in strip of 3 and 1 single and 7½ cent Dancer in strip of 4 (glue used for sticking) making up the rate for a registered letter, sent from TAMANAN 21.9.05 to the International Red Cross Committee in the Dago Hospital in Bandoeng 24.9.05. A sub-post office Tamanan in the Revolution period is not recorded so far, not listed in Bulterman nor in Van Nieuwkerk/Vosse 1942-1949. In the list of post offices openend on 1 Dec 1944 Tamanan is not mentioned, thus must have opened between 1 Dec 1944 and 21 Sep 1945. The (official) Indonesian Postal Services opened on 27 Sep 1945. Despite the fact that the envelope is somewhat roughly opened it is wonderfully franked and the only cover recorded from Tamanan, besides, in a tumultuous period, thus fits very well into your Revolution exhibition collection!