Just sorting through some new acquisitions, I was about to mount this India service stamp when I noticed the overprint. I can't locate it in catalogues - does anyone know what it means?
Gwalior was one of six so-called Convention States, which entered an agreement with the Indian PO around 1885, to overprint their State names onto Indian stamps.
Gwalior was the biggest and most prominent of the six, and the only one permitted to use a non-English overprint. Its Service (government use) stamps were overprinted entirely in Hindi
(SG O69)
although it's general use stamps showed GWALIOR in both Hindi and English:
hoping its ok to revive this thread from the dead..... Im back working on Indian Convention States, Gwalior... and am having trouble id'ing officials/Service stamps. Question - as per above, if the overprint is all in Hindi, the stamp is an Official and if english and Hindi, regular postage? Exceptions to this? yes/no?
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Posted 05/14/2015 2:56 pm
