Jaipur And Rabat - Stationery Envelopes

Jaypur 1913 ½A Deschl E7e envelopes are the commonest among the 13 subtypes (Deschl E7, E7a-k & E8) of Jaypur 1913 ½A Die III/State III of Die I envelopes.

The valuations given by Deschl most of the time are grossly inflated even in today's standard but here this used E7e cover is a $5 item when Deschl assigned value of $2.

This is Jaypur 1904 ½A Chariot of Surya ultramarine lithograph (SG 3b) with rough perf.14, printed on unwatermarked gummed paper from Plate III by Jaypur State Printing Press, Jaypur in sheets of 24 (4×6).

This stamp is from position R1/2(2) in the sheet, characterized by the gap in the top right corner between the horizontal and verticular outer framelines, with the combination of raised TE of STATE and the upper stroke of I of Sawai in Devnagari touching the inner frameline.

Here is a complete sheet of Jaypur 1904 ½A Plate III.
(from "Haggisphile peterh")



Each stamp was individually drawn on the lithographic stone, thus resulting many variations in the stamps, especially in the short line below the chariot and the letterings.

The stamps in the sheet are arranged 1½ to 2mm apart and the peripheral stamps are bordered with a rectangular outer frameline (14.5cm×21.2cm) which runs at 2mm distance from the stamps in all 4 sides of the sheet.

Each sheet has control mark written in manuscript in red ink in Devnagari, generally in the top right corner.

The inscription HALF ANNA in each stamp measures 16-17mm.

Vignette: It features Chariot of Surya which was an intricate part of the ruling Kachhvaha Dynasty of the Indian feudatory state of Jaypur (1128-1948) as it belongs to Suryavanshi dynasty which traces its lineage to mythological ruler Ikshvaku.
Thus the Surya the Sun God is very important to Jaypur state.

The left side shows the inscription Adh Ana i.e. Half Ana and below is Sawai Jaypur, both in Devnagari script.

Sawai means 1¼ which was used by Jaypur to indicate that Jaypur state was more important than other states by a factor of ¼.

Cancel: It is Kemmenoe and Batiya type 52/Kumar type D-3 cds (diameter 2.7cm) dt. December 22,1904, exclusively used in Jaypur Head PO of Jaypur State Post.

The upper part reads Jaipur and lower part Dakkhana Sadar (Head Post Office) in Devnagari.

Incidentally here the letter kh is supplemented by the letter slug sh but often used to describe kh.
The same cds with kh instead of sh in Dakkhana is classified as Kemmenoe and Batiya type 53.

The earliest and latest recorded dates of usage of this very type are October 1904 and January 1910 respectively.

The presence of two additional partial strike of the cds on the stamp suggests that the stamp was most likely used on a registered cover rather than 2nd or 3rd wt slab cover.
The basic letter postage was ½A for 4.37gm from July 1904 to November 19,1942 and the registration fee was 2A per article.

This is not from Jaypur. I cannot figure out from where.
The intaglio seal is just a private mark, not a postmark.

Squirreling away for my Album Pages.
Thank you very much.

My most common Jaypur, I must have about 60 of them.
Official business must have been brisk.

It is posted upside down.

This is a Jaypur pre-stamp paid cover from Niwai (26.3609°N
75.9289°E), now in Tonk district of Rajasthan.

The red negative seal is the Niwai Paid mark (diameter: 2.3cm) which
shows the following in Devnagari script.

Shriramji
Mahsul Li
ya Dak Zi
Nivahi

It roughly translates as following.

Shriramji
Postage/Charge Taken
or Post
Niwahi

It was customary in Jaypur state to begin everything with the name of
Lord Ramchandra which iwas deemed auspicious. This practice is also
reflected in its pre-stamp postage

Fabulous,
Thank you very much indeed, Joy.

Thank you once again for all your expertises here, Joy Daschaudhuri!



Rod, thanks as always for your contributions!