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What Has The Jind Lion Been Eating?

 
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Posted 08/21/2011   10:18 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add tonymacg to your friends list Get a Link to this Message


Any suggestions?

(But don't bother trying to find him in the catalogues. This stamp was never officially issued. It's believed it was an essay for an unissued Official stamp.)
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Posted 08/21/2011   11:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Ryan to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Jindi? Jindians? Jindarati? (What the heck is the demonym for Jind anyway? Probably something as inscrutable as Haligonian or Mancunian.)

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Posted 08/21/2011   11:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's not what he ate,
he just seen a stamp from Bhor.

These stamps actually grow on you,
that is really quite a nice stamp
when it's all said and done.

Jind? When the stamp printers used Jhind.

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Edited by rod222 - 08/21/2011 12:01 pm
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Posted 08/21/2011   7:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Actually, Rod, the printers took a while to make up their minds about the English name of the State. They also tried Jeend, but at least in the days of the bug-eyed lion, they agreed with you:



I go with Gibbons, though, and the final choice of the inhabitants of Jind

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Overprints have been witnessed as......

surcharge has changed from time to time and overprints have been spelt as 'JIND', 'JHIND', and 'JEEND' in addition to 'JEIND' as an error variety.

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Posted 08/21/2011   8:44 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It...was...the salmon mousse.


Or some Dhar elephant...not very filling, though.
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Posted 08/22/2011   06:24 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampgal to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Pies, surely?
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Posted 08/22/2011   09:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well, whatever was in the pies certainly made his tail curl.
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