Indian States?

Please, could anyone give some information about this stamp? I've also a similar one in green, but I'm not able to identify them. Thank you.

Try Nepal

Thank You very much Tony. I think they're SG #2 and 4.

The stamp you show at least has a postal postmark. Many, perhaps the majority of, early Nepal stamps on the market have crescent-shaped telegraph cancels. As the frame lines in your example are very blurred and unclear, I'd guess it was from a later printing, probably the 1886 printing on native paper. However, I don't have a current Gibbons listing of Nepal, so I can't be of more help, I'm afraid.

Were the margins usually that big?

Doug, I speak as strictly a non-collector of Nepal, however ... I do know that the plates were taken apart for cleaning and reassembled a number of times. It's perfectly possible that one of the settings yielded these large margins. Towards the end of the life of the plate, the ink clogging the fringe of lines around the central design became so bad that the lines were completely re-cut, giving many fewer lines.

Two Web sites that might help are http://www.nepalstamps.com/home and http://fuchs-online.com/ntpsc/ (the Nepal and Tibet Philatelic Study Circle).