Please Help With This Stamp...!

Can someone please help me with this stamp, I believe it is a Queen Victoria half anna Indian Postage stamp. I have been looking for a while now and cant find anything relating to this stamp whatsoever. Any help would be greatly appreciated!



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It appears to have been cut to shape from an envelope.

Postal Stationery envelope cut-out. Depending on the detail could be anything from late 1850s to mid 1870s.

thank you.

If you go to ebay and search for "India postal stationery" some of the envelopes will come up. That way you can see what the entire looks like and sells for.

Peter

This is a postal stationery cutout from either British India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper (laid lines running from left to right) envelope (Higgins and Gage B4/Lang EA8) (11.6cm×6.6cm) or less likely from Br. India 1886 ½A Vic. turquoise green on thin white laid paper envelope (H&G B4a/Lang EA9) (12cm×9.4cm).

So the dates given above as late 1850s to mid 1870s are incorrect.

Here are the complete envelopes.

Br. India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (H&G B4/Lang EA8)
(11.6cm×6.6cm)



Br. India 1886 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (H&G B4a/Lang EA9)
(12cm×9.4cm)

The Br. India 1883 ½A H&G B4/Lang EA8 envelope was also overprinted for different uses, viz., China Expeditionary Force and Indian Convention States.

1900 C.E.F. ovpt. on Br. India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (H&G IB3/Lang ME3/Ascher 1/Bright 800/Cooper C1/Jain ME3/Neurgãokar MEN3/Speers 1/Lowe EP1)



Indian Convention State: Chamba
Chamba 1886 Chamba Coat of Arms ovpt. on Br. India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (H&G B1/Deschl E1)



Indian Convention State: Faridkot
Faridkot 1888 Faridkot Coat of Arms ovpt. on Br. India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (H&G B6/Deschl E5)



Indian Convention State: Gwaliyar
Gwaliyar 1888 Gwaliyar Coat of Arms ovpt. on Br. India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (Deschl E9)



Indian Convention State: Jind
Jind 1888 Jind Coat of Arms ovpt. on Br. India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (Deschl E8)



Indian Convention State: Patiyala
Patiyala 1889 Patiyala Coat of Arms ovpt. on Br. India 1883 ½A Vic. turquoise green on white laid paper envelope (H&G B5/Deschl E6)

The Nagappattinam HPO combined date stamp and obliterator type with index letter was introduced in 1893 to selected Head POs/Sub POs which on average handled 1000 posted articles daily.

Here the Code Z (at the left of the date in the central band) is the index letter which indicates the specific mail dispatch time, (here 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.).

These index letters were first introduced in Br. India in 1881 but were systematically regulated in 1883 vide Rule 844 of the Indian Post Office Manual 1883.

Nagappattinam HPO was located in Nagappattinam (10.7656°N 79.8424°E), now in Nagappattinam district, Tamizh Nadu.

Fabulous study, thank you very much for posting.




Would we be able to see the complete code, if available?