Strange Maritime Cinderella. Can Anyone Help?

I bought this cinderella, as it looked unusual and very stamp-like.

Can anybody give me some information on what it mgiht be?

The script looks to be Thai, from Thailand.

The world is tilting!

23,435 SCF members are all leaning left and tilting
their head to see the stamp.

i was just browsing ebay and saw a Nepal stamp that looked very similar to the cinderella...i don't know what Nepal would have to do with maritime ???

I think the language is Tamil and the first three letters are the top appear to be "Tamil" (ta-mii-llla- ).

oops for the tilt.

Apologies for having it fallen on its side!

I haven't worked out how to turn the stamp around once its uploaded.

The script doesn't look Nepali to me. I've collected a lot of Nepali stamps.

After looking at it with my good eye it''s from thialand I had to look from the corner of my good eye. Nice very nice thick I may be seasick (tilting ).

I agree with nigelc: I think the script is Tamil.

I just googled a picture of the stamp.
It comes from a website, that looks to be Tamil?
Hard to tell,( but it seems fairly clear) as it's all in Tamil

The web address is

http://rste.org/

It looks very much like a Tamil revolutionary website?

The google page says this is the first Tamil stamp.

In 1959 Simon Bandaranaike Prime Minister of Ceylon was assassinated and shortly afterwards was replaced by his wife who insisted on continuing, and stepping up, policies of making Sinhalese the only official language, repatriating Tamils to India etc. This led to an outbreak of separatism in some of the Tamil areas, which included organising an 'alternative' postal service with (beginning in March 1961) Tamil postage stamps, of which this is probably one. Shortly after wards Mrs Bandaranaike sent the troops in to stop this kind of thing.

I take the top line to read Tamilra which is the adjective formed from Tamil and tends mean the Tamil language, but could probably take a range of other implications - like saying 'English'.

Then it sounds as if I would be fairly safe to classify it in my Indian subcontinent album as a Tamil separatist stamp of circa 1961.

It does seem as if the Tamil separatist movement, which clearly continues, today, is holding on to the fact that they did print stamps for some period in their history.

Politics aside, I have a soft spot for ethnic minorities who try to gain independence ( although the means they use probably is very questionable) and like the idea that they have a stamp production.

Trouble is, of course, then they're often printed in other countries,for propaganda purposes.
For me they can still represent a people, which otherwise wouldn't be represented in stamp history.