Cancellation Assistance Requested - India

I was just a petty rating :)
I remember well your Navy, at one point we were destroyer escort
alongside USS Oriskany somewhere along the coast of Vietnam.
The way they spit aircraft off the flight deck was awe inspiring.
I loved the Navy, and hated the war.
It stuffed me up, I still remain cynical with life.

Boy! are you outa luck
I have Rangoon as "India~Used abroad"
I have six examples..not one bottom ring

makes complete sense..small format stamp
placed in top RH corner,
cancelled by large diameter hammer.

You probably will never sight the bottom ring
unless on a multiple block

Pretty, rod, thanks for sharing.

Back on page 1, we were discussing shopping lists etc scribbled onto covers. In my (still unsuccessful) search for examples of a Jaipur Lachmangarh CDS, I turned up this card, which has gone the rounds within the Jaipur State bureaucracy:





from a vaccinator, asking where his supply of Jaipur Service stamps has got to.

A very, very common stamp (SG O13), but not easy to find it still on a card; millions seem to have been soaked off.

Part of those millions, you sent to me :)

I wonder what a "lol vaccinator" was for.

I could be wrong , but I'd guess it's his name 'Bhawwar Lal'.

And I had to get rid of the blessed things somehow

you totally ignored my jest. :)

From wiki.. I saw the video when they did this..

Oriskany's post-service history also differs considerably from that of her sister ships. Decommissioned in 1976, she was sold for scrap in 1995, but repossessed due to lack of progress in 1997. In 2004 it was decided to sink her as an artificial reef off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. After much environmental review and remediation to remove toxic substances, she was carefully sunk in May 2006, settling in an upright position at a depth accessible to recreational divers. The Oriskany is the world's largest artificial reef

I like the happy sun cancellations. Were these peculiar to Jaipur state?

Smauggie, I thought I'd posted some of these before, but if I did, I can't find them any more. So here is a selection of Jaipur Sun postmarks. They aren't all happy: some are downright sinister, but, yes, they were peculiar to Jaipur:







(Jaipur Railway Mail Sorting), and



They're quite easy to find on Jaipur postal stationery cards and envelopes, and make quite an interesting little sideline.

I should have added: the Jaipur ruling family claimed descent from the Sun God, Surya, hence the Sun motif, and Surya driving his chariot, which appeared on all Jaipur stamps for its first 30 years:



(The 1 Rupee of 1905, SG 15)

Thanks, Tony. I never thought of the sun as having a moustache.

Here is another one for you.
Can't quite make out the town name at the bottom of the cancellation.


Close-up for Rod

This is the receiving cancellation. Is that an Indian language character at the end of the town name?

Jeypore state of Orissa (north east coast)...or
Jeypore state of Rajasthan
Jeypore airport

The receiving must be a guess
assuming 7 letters beginning BHADA???
Bhadaur state of Punjab
Going by the cover anglicised "Bhalulpur"
but I cannot find anything close
I now think I can see BHALAL?????

I think you may be right, I found an example of the bottom
ring of Rangoon and it seems to have a similar script/cypher
alongside, but the image is blurry.

I now think it part of the CDS

over to Tony....

Here is a strangely-shaped receiving cancellation. The date stamp part is squarish. It also features a mixture of font sizes and types.

Is that Indian Smauggie?