Angels Are Sexless.

what is that ?!?

that is tony's attempt to get everyone to stop clecting indian states :)

thanks spock! lets go warp 5!

I wonder sometimes how Star Trek does special airmail delivery between galactic posts..??

we dont use airmail only intergalactic mail :)

What is the denomination of the specimen directly above?
Thanks in advance.
Lizardly,
halflizard

A job that isn't worth doing isn't worth doing right.

Galactic collecting:



the canadian philatelist1963

Do you mean this



Halflizard? It's a ¼ Anna - the local single letter rate in Jhalawar at the time.

I have seen that before Tony....

Ah yes!.......District 9!

Jhalawar image. some gossip.
"An illustrated history of stamp design"
william finlay 1974


Chapter 4 "The Primitives"

Religious considerations had a marked effect on Oriental stamp design.
In the Moslem countries the representation of human or animal figures was taboo, so
stamps were designed in which the lettering or numerals constituted the only motif.

Fortunately Arabic script has decorative qualities which the Roman alphabet lacks and
this led to some very pleasing results, such as the first issue of Hyderabad (1869). Turkey
got round the ban on figurative work by using the crescent-and-star motif or the Sultan's
toughra (sign manual) as a decorative feature on stamps well into the twentieth century.
The Hindu states of India were no less inhibited than their Moslem counterparts in this
respect, but this encouraged the use of emblems, such as daggers, or figures from Hindu
mythology—such as the apsara or dancing nymph found on the stamps of Jhalawar.

A few states, such as Kishangarh and Wadhwan, emulated the West by producing stamps
with crudely drawn coats of arms. By the turn of the century, however, the ban on figures
was being relaxed and eventually portraits of rulers, albeit in a crude form, began to
appear. In 1904 Perkins Bacon produced a beautiful series for Jaipur, showing the chariot
of the sun-god...etc

"Sexless"?????? "Angels" in the Christian bible refers to whispy beings of no particular shape or form. The absurd horns and wings (and human shape) things came during the dark Ages.