Eleven official seal designs are known from Vietnam. Many have also been used as censor seals.
Date issued: Unknown, EKU February 8, 1965
Printing: Black
Perforation: Imperforate
Inscription: Bilingual Vietnamese/French "BU’U-ÐIỆN ("POST OFFICE") VIỆT-NAM / Postes et Télécommunications du Viét-Nam / BU’U - VỤ / Service des Postes"
Control Number: None
Description: Envelope insufficiently paid for airmail sent in 1965 from Murcia, Spain to Thôt Nôt, South Vietnam with earliest known type Vietnamese official seal affixed at right. Likely a censorship usage.
Courtesy of Jim Drummond by permission. Date issued: Unknown, EKU May 11, 1988
Printing: Black on coarse green, black on coarse gray
Perforation: Imperforate
Inscription: "BU’U-ÐIỆN / "BU’U-ÐIỆN" (OS4) and bilingual Vietnamese/French "BU’U-ÐIỆN / Postes / et / Télécommunications" (OS7)
Control Number: None
Description: December 1987 cover from Alhambra, CA to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam "Damaged in High Speed / Cancelling Equipment" in Alhambra and repaired upon arrival in Hanoi on three sides with two different types of Vietnamese seals. Updated July 27, 2008
Catalog: Drummond OS1
Catalog: Drummond OS4 (green paper) and OS7 (gray paper)
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