India - 9 Pies - Postcard Or Hard Paper?

Hi,

No perforation and very hard paper. Is it a postcard stamp?

https://picasaweb.google.com/CDNumS...602669655058

https://picasaweb.google.com/CDNumS...682934502146

Thank you!

CDNum
https://picasaweb.google.com/CDNumStamps

It is a stamp, I think, with trimmed perfs. Thats the back seat driver evaluation for you. :o)

I'm not sure to understand... maybe you can be more explicite :)

Paper is hard like cardbord... very very hard.

Thank you!

CDNum
https://picasaweb.google.com/CDNumStamps

It should be a cut-out. The paper for the postage stamp is much thinner and on most of those stamps, you can usually see the "star" watermark when you lay the stamp face down (even without watermark fluid). I don't have a H&G catalog, so I cannot give you the catalog number.

My guess CDnum is neither,
I think it may be a lettercard,
but I don't have any catalogues on Indian stationery
probably our Guru, Mr. Tony Mac of the uglies
will chip in later, (He doesn't get up till noon)

Hi,

It's a weird stamp... I have lot like this one but not with very hard paper like that.

Thank you Smauggie, Khj and Rod222!

CDNum
https://picasaweb.google.com/CDNumStamps

It's a cut-out from a 9 Pies postcard issued between 1932 and 1936. Here is an example overprinted for use in Gwalior:



(And, Young Rodney, I may not get up until 10:30 - like Burlington Bertie - but I'm still up long before the rest of you layabouts in more backward time zones.)

Arghh! a postcard, of course,
now that you post it, it seems obvious.
I had better smarten up my act.

Same goes for me.

What is the difference between a postcard and a lettercard. I am unfamiliar with the latter term. I usually simply use the term postal card.

We used to have lettercards in Australia, certainly. They looked rather like aerogrammes, but were on stiff card and folded up like aerogrammes. They were intended for domestic, not international, use.

OK, understood. Thank you, Tony!

Postal card is a great term, that has a wide ranging
and encompassing definition.
It will, I assume include any form of stiff
stationery including AR cards and newspaper wrappers.

Lettercards are sort of like private postcards,
they have two leaves that can be sealed.
Travancore and Hyderabad had two leaved cards,
but they could not be sealed, so I guess they are
classified as postcards, so it looks like
India did not posess lettercards.

Australian lettercard

Thank you for the pic, Rod!

I assume you were not allowed to enclose anything within the sealed lettercard?

Rodney, are you thinking of Reply Cards? Like this specimen from ... Barwani?



(and the reverse - Reply - side:)

Ugh, he's one of those huh? -- early risers.

No wonder he's a guru.