Cancellation Assistance Requested - India

The things you learn through stamp collecting...

Rod, the verb is chasser, "eau" would be a masculine noun ending, and not found in any verb form.

The things you learn through stamp collecting...

i may wear glasses and be elderly but I am sure I will be more than a handful Tony in fact I guarantee it ( I will wear a mask and make sure that smauggie and rod wear the same mask in case a switch is required)

A new mystery for the super-sleuths.

Don't recall ever seeing a triangular 'Posted in wrong box' mark from India before. Very nice one, smauggie. Probably posted in a larger town, with separate boxes for local mail and airmail etc, but don't take that as gospel, please!

You've clearly got your money's worth out of that buy.

Never seen before by Tony? Inconceivable! :o)

Went off the source of all wisdom on matters of British Indian philately, the India Study Circle journal India Post, and found this question and answer, concerning a rectangular boxed POSTED IN THE WRONG BOX stamp:

095/12: 'POSTED IN THE WRONG BOX'

Mr P.Parsons
sends a cover
from BOMBAY
GPO 20 APR. 37
to KARACHI, delivered 1 May, with the cachet
shown. He asks "why was this applied? Were
there different boxes for inland and foreign
mail?"
It was applied to explain a delay in transit, due
to missing a despatch through no fault of the
Post Office. Almost certainly Bombay GPO did
have separate boxes for several classes of mail —
perhaps local as well, and even Airmail (does
anyone recall the blue boxes in British towns just
before WWII?) At one time there were also
boxes in some stations on both up and down
platforms which were cleared by TPO staff, and
mail posted on the wrong platform went on the
wrong train.

Couldn't find a triangular marking, though. It's a great pity the name of the town is missing from the CDS.

Incidentally, I also found references to a POSTED IN WRONG TRAIN and a POSTED IN WRONG STEAMER marking. Keep looking, smauggie: I want a POSTED IN WRONG STEAMER marking from you, now.

Never seen a triangular cancel before,
I'd suggest that it is very rare the hammer
was applied anywhere near the stamp,
usually on the cover, hence not seen on soaked stamps.

You mean, from India, correct? You've seen the British ones, no doubt...

Nothing too flashy, but I like the themed received cancellation.

Thats okay tony has not seen a lot of things before and beleive me its gods mercy. if he ever stepped out of his royal palace in barwani he would never collect indian stamps again.

but I am in a chatty mood today. the raj installed 3 boxes on our head green blue and red for different purposes green was local blue was metros and red was india wide so if you wanted the cancel all you would do is post int he worng box on purpose :)

ok I am off to start my where no collector has gone before thread

absolutely Collin.
Looked at thousands of Indian stamps too.

rod you collect non indian stamps?

to borrow jubilees phrase

whats wrong with you man :)

by the way the place on the top is bathal and not badhal badhal means in bad shape. some things do get lost in translation :)

This came in with the others. Interesting stamp.

This looks like a post-Independence piece (1956, from the printer's code). The address looks like Bombay/Mumbai to me, but no doubt Spock could confirm.

Wandering slightly off-topic, this reminds me to remind any newcomers to Indian stamps to be wary of used high value British Indian stamps. Most of the high values (15 and 25 Rupees) were used on telegrams, and these stamps with telegram cancels are worth much less than postally used. Telegram cancels will usually have TEL somewhere in them.