Not One For The Printed Album Brigade

Now when they printed something like that it was obvious that the object used was some wood block that was hand socked on the page and should have been within the squares. Seems something like that was ment to be cut. But in the example someone else showed involved perfs. The question I have is where the perforations on the later ones pre printing of the hand socks or after?

Vacuum man, Poonch never tried to perforate its stamps. Is it any wonder?

The royal family of Poonch were related to the royal family of Jammu & Kashmir, and were subject to their overall control. Jammu & Kashmir did experiment briefly with those perforation things



around 1878, but quickly gave it away as an unnecessary refinement. These Poonch stamps appeared in 1887, so well after Big Brother Jammu & Kashmir had stopped bothering.

(After thinking about it, I see you were probably referring to the block of Kishangarh State stamps I posted on Page 1. They were also printed one at a time. They were issued perforated, and also imperforate. I don't know whether Kishangarh printed the stamps first, and then perforated them, or vice versa. I haven't seen any really dramatically badly perforated examples of these stamps, so perhaps they did the perforations first, and then stamped the stamps into the perforated squares. Anyway, an interesting question!)

But you're right: these were printed singly from a hand punch. The original die was engraved, probably on brass, by a seal cutter from Srinagar in Kashmir, named Rahat Ju. The printer of Poonch stamps also occasionally decided (for reasons of his own) to print a stamp sideways or upside down too, but unfortunately I don't have an example to show.

Obviously not the Poonch printer, Rod! This man doesn't look like the type to enjoy a beverage or two over lunch, I'd say. Definitely one for The Cup That Cheers But Does Not Inebriate.

OK, but the one's he's printing certainly looks
like your stamp collection

Nothing at all like it, Rod! None of mine are so generously spaced across the page. Take this sheet of my avatar, Bhor #1, as an example:



I suspect he's making copies