Help Identifying Indian States/Providences?

So I cam across a small glassine of rather interesting looking handcut Indian states. Unfortunatly, my Scotts are very out of date (1999 and 2000) and don't have that handy full color goodness to help me ID them as easy as I had dared to hope.

Anyone know a good online resource for ID or general info for Indian states/providences/provincials? I had several in bright hard-to-read yellow that might fare well from outside sources.

You could start with this thread: https://goscf.com/t/7685

If you don't find your stamps there, post some scans. I should be able to help.

Be warned, though, your reference to 'bright hard-to-read yellow' has me worried. They sound as if they come from a well-known, very comprehensive and very common series of forgeries.

Good thing we both don't mind forgeries. I was wondering about the yellows since I couldn't find anything like it in my Scotts and usually means something's afoot.

I can imagine a few yellows that might fill the bill, such as the Jammu & Kashmir 1/8 Anna stamps of 1883:



but I'll remain cautious in the meantime.

This yellow is a bright blazing almost highlighter yellow, very thin cream paper and I had to play with the light to see it. It seems to have two crossed swords but could be a platypus eating a tennis ball for all I know.

Please post a scan, no matter how blinding.

The only Indian State I can think of which regularly used the crossed swords motif is Charkhari





and in their CTO cancellations as well



but I don't think they ever perpetrated a brilliant yellow.

I'm going through my sorted stamps right now to find it. Hopefully I can figure out where I put them. My system's a bit primative.