India - Revenues (Queen Victoria)

I am not sure are these also revenues, or regular postage stamps of some of the Indian states?





Btw. does anybody knows which Indian states are these another 2?

I know almost nothing about these but I find them a great challenge to locate in the catalogue. Also I know counterfeits abound so our local experts will have to chime in, but I think the brown (red?) is from Jammu & Kashmir SC79 1878-80. It is upside down.

And the green is a 1a from Soruth SC14 1877-86. It also has to be rotated.

jamesw, thank you very much again! you helped a lot to me and my eyes with these 2 identifications! :)


ontopic:

Jamesw is quite right in his identification of the two Indian States stamps.

The first is from Soruth. It exists on both laid paper and wove paper. The laid paper version is catalogued in the latest Gibbons at 15p; the wove paper version is better, at £1.50.

The second is a Jammu & Kashmir ¼ Anna. It also exists on laid and wove paper. However, in this case, the laid paper version is better, at £7.50, against £1 for the wove paper version. (And yes: it is indeed upside down!) Here it is, paying the postcard rate within Jammu & Kashmir, used on a British Indian postal stationery card, to pay for the postage beyond Jammu & Kashmir territory to Amritsar, in British Indian territory:



The cancellation of bars, and the blurry cancel at lower left, are Jammu & Kashmir State cancels. The British Indian postcard was cancelled at Sialkot, where the card was turned over from the Jammu & Kashmir to the British post office for carriage onwards to Amritsar.

And a few more Victorian Indian revenues:









The 500 Rupee is getting rather expensive - it was equivalent to around $US200 at the time.

tonymacg, it was really expensive than... do you maybe know a catalog value of that piece (500 rupee) today?

i suppose that unused are even more scarce and expensive.

The first three Victorias and the Edward, from the later post, are telegraph stamps that are commonly seen cut in half. Just so you know, if you are looking at other pictures, there is more to each of those four stamps. Again, you often only see the half stamps.

As I understand it, it has to do with the way that the stamp was used, with half going on the telegram, and half staying on a receipt.

As for tonymacg's, examples, the 500R green was the second-highest value in the issue. There was a 1000R rose, as well. Forbin only lists values for used, not mint.

There were 700R and 1000R court fee stamps, too. Even back in 1915, there were significant premiums for these higher values.

Nice to know that telegraph stamps are cut in the using process... and not by the early collector with a scissors, who just wanted to cut-to-shape them for the album spaces (it was mine initial thought)...

Here are a couple of examples of unused, un-cut Telegraphs:

where can one find current prices for Indian Telegraph stamps?